| CENTO | Poem comprised of lines from other poems |
| TRAINSET | Toy comprised of lines and engines (5,3) |
| ALLALONG | A couple of lines from top barman entertains half of London from the beginning (3,5) |
| TRIGRAM | Figure of lines from branch of maths and stuff |
| ALLSTAR | A couple of lines from paper by top hurler (3-4) |
| SESTET | Certain set of lines from Petrarch |
| PALMIST | Reader of lines from hymn composer missing son (7) |
| ARTHURWELLESLEY | General sort of line from a film actor (6,9) |
| DOTTED | Sort of line from Dorothy and Edward (6) |
| SETTLED | Moved successfully to town at end of line from Carlisle? (7) |
| YEATS | Poet whose book The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems includes The Song of the Happy Shepherd (5) |
| EXCELSIOR | Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow originally printed in the 1841 edition of Ballads and Other Poems |
| HESPERUS | 'The Wreck Of The ---', poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow included in the 1841 collection Ballads And Other Poems (8) |
| BROOKE | Rupert _; English poet, author of 1914 and Other Poems (6) |
| NODEAL | Refusal of nearly every other poem entered |
| ALASPOORYORICK | Like track I see in English city, start of line from small village? (4,4,6) |
| TRISTRAM | 1852 work by Matthew Arnold from the collection Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (8,3,6) |
| THEWRECKOFTHEHESPERUS | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow narrative poem included in 1842 collection Ballads and Other Poems |
| JOHNKEATS | English Romantic poet best known for 1820's Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St Agnes and Other Poems (4,5) |
| THEWRECK | Narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in Bel ads and Other Poems in 1842 (3,5,2,3,8) |
