| PIEDPIPER | The --- --- of Hamelin, legendary German figure, the subject of a poem by Robert Browning (4,5) |
| PIED | The --- Piper of Hamelin, legendary German figure (4) |
| LORELEI | Legendary German figure learning with support of Romanian money (7) |
| LOCHNAGAR | Grampian mountain that is the subject of a poem by Lord Byron (9) |
| ROLAND | Would-be knight who, in a poem by Robert Browning, 'To the Dark Tower came' (6) |
| REDROSE | Emblem of Lancashire that features in a poem by Robert Burns once famously recited by the Prince of |
| LOHENGRIN | Legendary German hero (9) |
| ABOYSWILL | 1913 volume of poems by Robert Frost (1,4,4) |
| DONJUAN | Which legendary Spanish lover is the subject of a poem by Byron? (3,4) |
| HAMELIN | 'The Pied Piper of ---', poem by Robert Browning (7) |
| TAM | Short word for a woollen cap that derives its name from that of a hero in a poem by Robert Burns (3) |
| BEFOREISLEEP | Ending lines of a poem by Robert Frost |
| ANDMILESTOGO | Ending lines of a poem by Robert Frost |
| TINTERN | Ruined abbey in Monmouthshire, the subject of a poem by Wordsworth (7) |
| INCHCAPE | Another name for the Bell Rock, a notorious reef off the east coast of Angus, subject of a famous poem by Robert Southey |
| ABROAD | Home-Thoughts, From ____, poem by Robert Browning written in 1845 (6) |
| RUINS | 1855 poem by Robert Browning whose concluding line is "Love is best" (5) |
| LOVEAMONGTHE | 1855 poem by Robert Browning whose concluding line is "Love is best" (4,5,3) |
| IMSONNENSCHEIN | The fourth of Vier Gesange by Richard Strauss, opus 87, a setting of a poem by Ruckert (2,12) |
| LEISURE | Word, based on the Latin for "be allowed" and subject of a poem by W H Davies, for one's free time (7) |