| SPES | ____ springs eternal in the human breast, Pope, An Essay on Man |
| ALEXANDERPOPE | English poet who wrote 'Hope springs eternal in the human breast' |
| ETERNAL | 'Hope springs ___ in the human breast' (Alexander Pope An Essay on Man Epistle 1 (1733) (7) |
| HOPESPRINGSETERNAL | Words from Pope's "An Essay on Man" (1940, 1942-43, 1960-62, 1965-68, 1978) |
| HUMAN | 'To err is ___; to forgive divine' (Alexander Pope 'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) |
| LEARNING | 'A little ___ is a dangerous thing' (Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism (1711) I. 215) (8) |
| POPE | Leader of the world's smallest nation ("An Essay on Man") |
| LXNDRPP | "An Essay on Man" writer (9,4) |
| GIVENIN | “And not a vanity is ____ vain” (Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man) |
| HOPE | It springs eternal, in a saying |
| NIPPLE | Raised region of tissue on the surface of the human breast from which milk can be secreted (6) |
| BATHOS | From the Greek for "depth" and introduced in its literary sense by Alexander Pope, an anticlimax or ludicrous descent from the sublime to the ridiculous in speech/writing (6) |
| ONMAN | Pope's An Essay ___ |
| BOSOM | Booms out of the human breast |
| ESSAY | Pope's "An ___ on Man" |
| SEATASSIGNMENT | "While we're in the air, write an essay on aviation" |
| MALTHUS | Thomas ___, English economist who propounded his population theory in An Essay on the Principle of Population |
| ERR | "To _ is human", quotation from Alexander Pope's 1711 poem "An Essay on Criticism" (3) |
| WINTERSTALE | Somehow wit's eternal in Will's play (7,4) |
| WHEEL | 'Who breaks a butterfly upon a ___?' (Alexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735) |
