| LYRICS | Words of a ballad |
| EER | End of a ballad? |
| ENVOI | Final stanza of a ballad |
| LADYOFSHALOTT | Features in the title of a ballad by poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (4,2,7) |
| BROADSIDE | The guns on one half of a warship; the salvo of said armament; a verbal attack; or, historically, a sheet of paper printed with a ballad, proclamation etc, on one surface only (9) |
| SINGSONG | A ballad; a jingly verse; a monotonous or chant-like up-and-down intonation; or, a convivial gathering of friends for crooning (8) |
| LAY | Word for a ballad or sung poem; a lyric; a melody; the ordinary people, as distinct from the clergy or experts; the appearance of land; the direction rope is twisted in; or, an oyster-bed (3) |
| JAYNE | L.A. Guns sang a "Ballad" about her |
| REMIXED | Gave a ballad a disco beat, say |
| ROMANTICLOVE | Theme of many a ballad |
| ALLIED | Associated a boy with a ballad (6) |
| PERSONANONGRATA | Immediately a ballad singer accepts a reject |
| PAUL | Folk hero of the American Revolution, immortalised in a ballad by Henry Longfellow (4,6) |
| REVERE | Folk hero of the American Revolution, immortalised in a ballad by Henry Longfellow (4,6) |
| BOTTOMSDREAM | In 4.1, Bottom, who is amongst those who have had Puck's potion put on their eyes, awakes and proclaims, "I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream: it shall be called ___ ___." |
| DEALABLOW | Do some damage by composing a ballad of woe (4,1,4) |
| CASEYATTHEBAT | Poem subtitled "A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" |
| CASEYATTHE | Ernest Thayer poem about baseball subtitled A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (5,2,3,3) |
| BAT | Ernest Thayer poem about baseball subtitled A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (5,2,3,3) |
| DARBYANDJOAN | Which expression for a devoted elderly couple was taken from a ballad written by Henry Woodfall in 1735? (5,3,4) |
