| VACATION | Verse by a spiteful woman - one on holiday (8) |
| BELITTLE | Dwarf beautiful woman, one on the wagon inside (8) |
| SALVATION | Woman - one on about tax - making saving |
| VARIABLE | Inconsistent one, clever, after verse by a royal (8) |
| CATCALLS | Rude noises made when a spiteful woman phones (8) |
| OUTSMART | Pull a fast one on holiday getting latest transport back (8) |
| POSTCARD | News sent by one on holiday (8) |
| SPITFIRE | Someone with a spiteful temper or a WWII fighter plane |
| ADVOWSON | A decadent poet admits verse by churchman's right (8) |
| CHITCHAT | Gossip from young girl, a spiteful female, about husband |
| MINERVA | One digging verse by a wise old female |
| AVIATOR | Pilot finding a verse by a trio, possibly |
| TWILIGHT | Edward Elgar's Op. 59, No. 6. (1910), a setting of verse by Canadian-British writer Gilbert Parker (8) |
| VICARAGE | Grantchester dwelling immortalised in verse by Rupert Brooke (3,8) |
| BEASTLY | - Tales; collection of 10 animal fables in verse by A Suitable Boy, An Equal Music and forthcoming novel A Suitable Girl author Vikram Seth (7) |
| VARIOUS | Different verse by a redhead with debts (7) |
| ODE | Laudatory verse by a poet |
| REV | With reference to verse by a clergyman (3,0) |
| LAD | 'A Shropshire --', series of nostalgic verses by A. E. Housman (3) |
| NOWWEARESIX | 1927 book of verses by A A Milne (3,2,3,3) |
