| WASTELAND | The -, modernist poem in five sections by T S Eliot first published in 1922 (5,4) |
| NINEANDCOUNTING | Recent book with sections by Susan Collins |
| QUADRILLE | Square dance of French origin related to the contredanse, typically containing five sections or figures (9) |
| BRONISLAW | Polish anthropologist whose book Argonauts of the Western Pacific was published in 1922 (9,10) |
| OLDPOSSUM | Name assumed by T S Eliot in letters to his godchildren |
| IMPENDING | The last section by one politician is about to happen (9) |
| EASTCOKER | Village in Somerset visited by T.S. Eliot (4,5) |
| GERONTION | Poem by T.S. Eliot (9) |
| DANIELDERONDA | Novel by George Eliot, first published in 1876, the last novel she completed (6,7) |
| OBSCENITY | Spoilt section by indecency |
| SAINTSAENS | French composer of The Carnival of the Animals, first published in 1922 (5-5) |
| THEWASTELAND | Poem by writer T.S. Eliot published in 1922 that begins 'April is the cruellest month' (3,5,4) |
| DIGEST | Best-selling US family magazine first published in 1922, Reader's ... |
| MYLIFE | Lyn Hejinian's poetic autobiography whose most recent version, updated when the author was forty-five, consists of forty-five sections with forty-five sentences each |
| CAT | Any one of the felines depicted in a poem by T. S. Eliot that serves as the basis of a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (3) |
| JELLICLE | ____ Cats, fictitious felines described by T.S. Eliot in a poem published in 1939 (8) |
| DIE | One of six objects hidden in this puzzle's 5×5 sections of white squares (and where you need to find the letters matching the value shown there) |
| CATS | Musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber first performed in 1981, based on a work by T. S. Eliot (4) |
| GUS | "The Theatre Cat" in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T S Eliot |
| PRELUDES | Poem by T. S. Eliot about modern urban life published in 1917 (8) |