| MYEAR | "A voice there is, that whispers in ___": Alexander Pope |
| ALIE | "In the cunning, truth itself's ___": Alexander Pope |
| DANCE | 'And men must walk at least before they ___' (Alexander Pope Imitations of Horace bk. 1, Epistle 1) (5) |
| BYPASS | In male voice there's variable power to go around |
| UNISON | Speaking with one voice there's progress finally in workers' organisation (6) |
| POWEROFLOVE | Celine Dion song, with The, that goes "The whispers in the morning...": 3 wds. |
| FAIRCHANCE | Likelihood there is that things will be above board? (4,6) |
| FATCHANCE | Little hope there is that Tubby will stay on diet? (3,6) |
| DEANKOONTZ | Author of over 100 suspense/horror novels, his breakthrough being Whispers in 1980 |
| ASIDES | Whispers in stage acting |
| LOUISE | Title name that "Every little breeze seems to whisper," in a Chevalier song |
| SHES | "They whisper in the hallway, '___ a bad, bad girl' " (Taylor Swift lyric) |
| LEARNING | 'A little ___ is a dangerous thing' (Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism, 1711) (8) |
| EAR | "Let me whisper in your ___..." (Stones line) |
| CASTASIDE | Players on stage whisper in ditch |
| ANGIE | Rolling Stones song with the lyric "Let me whisper in your ear" |
| UMBRIEL | Moon of Uranus discovered by English astronomer William Lassell in 1851 and named after a character in Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712) |
| WHEEL | 'Who breaks a butterfly upon a ___?' (Alexander Pope, An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot (1735) |
| FOOLS | Alexander Pope wrote that they "rush in" |
| OLLY | _ Alexander, starred in It's a Sin (4) |
