| LAIDIN | "They must be bound and ___ some dark room": "The Comedy of Errors" |
| MOVIEPROJECTORS | Some dark-room equipment |
| TIED | Creed's "Bound and ___" |
| VERDICT | Judgement must be bound by Hanover dictum |
| TACIT | Implied one must be bound by discretion (5) |
| JOHNGREENLEAFWHITTIER | US Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery who wrote Snow-Bound and the hymn Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (4,9,8) |
| TSELIOT | Which poet wrote the lines "In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo"? (1,1,5) |
| PECK | Author of books including A Patchwork Tale, The Skirts of Time, A Garden Enclosed, House-Bound and Home for the Holidays (4) |
| ELIOT | Poet who wrote "In the room the women come and go / Talking of Michelangelo" |
| SAUNA | Dry or wet heat room, the word and the concept derive from Finland |
| ENERGY | Beyonce song with the lyric "Big wave in the room, the crowd gonna move" |
| BUST | A sculpted portrait, often set on a pedestal in a grand room; the economic antithesis of a boom; a blackjack loser's fate; or, a police raid involving a smash of a door or gate (4) |
| POUFFE | Lying low in the drawing room, the original detective writer embraces paramilitary group (6) |
| FOLIAGE | With agile bound and shake of head, leaves (7) |
| MEALSONWHEELS | For the house bound and what lions think people on roller skates are (5,2,6) |
| FEISTY | Wife is Tyseley-bound and she certainly has plenty of spirit inside (6) |
| ELEPHANT | Controversial issue in the room the panel resolved (8) |
| DEMON | He has some more in his own room, the devil! (5) |
| LEETIDE | Christopher bound and flowing with the wind (3,4) |
| NOCANDO | Know scant idol to be out of bounds and impossible (2,3,2) |
