| COOLE | "The Wild Swans at -" (poem by Yeats) |
| ELEGY | The Spanish, for example, start to yawn at poem (5) |
| ERODE | Chip away at poem praising long-running medical drama? (5) |
| ATEMPO | Revert to previous rate of playing at poem for a change (1,5) |
| YEATS | "The Wild Swans at |
| ANSWERS | Returns and is back again among the wild swans (7) |
| ASWOON | Feeling faint outline of eggs in clutches of the wild swan (6) |
| DEIRDRE | First performed the year after his death, this unfinished JM Synge play was completed by Yeats; ... Of The Sorrows |
| PENSIVE | Being thoughtful, I have swans at the front |
| ENVOI | Literary "farewell" at poem's end |
| TEACOSY | This will keep the brew warm and is made by Yeats & Co (3,4) |
| CHANG | Jung ___, author of the 1991 best seller "Wild Swans" |
| POEM | Author marks work by Yeats (4) |
| ARE | ___ you content? (verse by Yeats) |
| POET | No harm in metaphor produced by Yeats (4) |
| APOPLEXY | A satirist including line by Yeats originally causes extreme anger (8) |
| ECSTASY | Drug for Lewis, say, overwhelmed by Yeats composition (7) |
| ALAMODE | Stylish line in a repeating metre at poem's start (1,2,4) |
| JUNGCHANG | Author of the volume Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (4,5) |
| CORNONTHECOB | The "Swan" at North Cone interchange provides food (4,2,3,3) |
