| TOAMOUSE | Burns poem that opens "Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie" |
| TOA | Robert Burns poem, ... Mouse (the 'Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie') (2,1) |
| MOUSE | Robert Burns' "wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie" (5) |
| THERAVEN | Poem that opens "Once upon a midnight dreary ..." |
| THEBESTLAID | (and 9, 12, 21, 28 across) Line from a Robert Burns poem that has become a proverb (3,4,4) |
| BEASTIE | Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous ___ (7) |
| WEE | Like Burns's tim'rous beastie |
| MOOSE | Is this North American deer a wee sleekit creature? (5) |
| ALITTLELEARNING | Alexander Pope warned about this "dang'rous thing" |
| RICHARD | - III; last king of the House of York who is portrayed in Shakespearean plays and John Rous' armorial roll-chronicle and Historic Regum Angliae (7) |
| KING | Male dragonfly; highest-ranking face card; large bed; or, any of the male monarchs described in John Rous' Historia Regum Angliae (4) |
| NEER | "O That I Had ___ Been Married" (Robert Burns poem) |
| REDREDROSE | Flower that "my Luve is like," in a Robert Burns poem |
| OFMICEANDMEN | Steinbeck work that takes its title from a Burns poem |
| NANNIE | Girl in a Robert Burns poem |
| NEWYEARSEVE | Holiday just before a famous Robert Burns poem is sung |
| THRO | "Comin' ___ the Rye" (Robert Burns poem) |
| SMA | Kind of request in a Robert Burns poem |
| LANGSYNE | Robert Burns' poem used in New Year celebrations, Auld ... (4,4) |
| SYNE | Word in a Robert Burns poem heard on December 31 |
