| HOLEINMYBUCKET | There's a ___, classic children's folk song in the form of a dialogue between Henry and Liza (4,2,2,6) |
| BHAGAVADGITA | Sacred Hindu text in the form of a dialogue between Krishna and the hero Arjuna |
| NONA | "Strega ___" (classic children's folk tale) |
| HASSLING | Annoying nitwit coming between Henry and Heather |
| ELLA | Late "First Lady of Children's Folk Songs" Jenkins |
| DEATH | What Emily Dickinson called 'a dialogue between the spirit and the dust' |
| KINGRICHARDTHESECOND | Who is the lead character in the Shakespeare play that begins with a duel between Henry Bolingbroke |
| EPISODE | In Greek tragedy, a passage of dialogue between two songs; now used mostly in relation to TV programmes (7) |
| RAMSAY | Author of the Scots pastoral comedy The Gentle Shepherd, whose son was principal painter to George III and penned A Dialogue on Taste (6) |
| AGINCOURT | Battle of 1415 between Henry V's English army and the French (9) |
| COKE | "I'd like to buy the world a ___" (classic ad song lyric) |
| DRRUTH | Adviser once described as "a cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse" |
| NIMH | "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of ___" (classic children's book) |
| HAIKU | Lines of dialogue between human and pigeon recorded |
| ECLOGUE | Short pastoral poem, especially a dialogue such as those of Virgil's Bucolica (7) |
| QAT | Q. "Is there a '_' ___ the end of the 'Avenue' musical?" A. "Yes." |
| SPIDER | "You're a total anti-sexist, a patriarchy fighter / But your whole worldview collapses / The moment there's a ___" (Bo Burnham lyric) |
| TEAR | "There's a ___ in My Beer" (1950 Hank Williams song recorded by Hank Williams Jr. in 1989) |
| TANTRA | Any of several Hindu texts written mainly as dialogues between Shiva and his wife |
| TEAM | The A-_, classic actionadventure show with George Peppard (4) |
