| DREADFULNIGHT | Couldn't one sleep a wink in the poet Thomson's city? (8,5) |
| INSOMNIAC | Can't sleep a wink in Masonic building (9) |
| COUNTER | Small disc called a wink in the game tiddlywinks (7) |
| OUTSIDER | Couldn't one come in at a price? (8) |
| JACUZZI | Just in case get rid of nests and have a couple of forty winks in the spa (7) |
| SLYLY | With a wink in your eye, perhaps |
| LASTNIGHT | "I didn't sleep a wink ___" (4,5) |
| HESIOD | Man one buried in the poet's ground: this poet? (6) |
| DIDNT | "I _sleep a wink!" |
| INTERVENE | Interpose as a result of an event in the poet's Ireland (9) |
| RIPVANWINKLE | Who, in a story by Washington Irving, went to sleep a subject of George III and woke much later as a citizen of the United States? (3,3,6) |
| PANIC | A hundred and one sleep the wrong way, showing terror (5) |
| CARELESSRAPTURE | Pure art, maybe, on view in the poet's trouble-free transport? (8,7) |
| SPHERE | Field of activity in the poet's sky (6) |
| LEA | Michael turned up briefly in the poet's meadow (3) |
| NESSUNDORMA | Aria in the 1926 Giacomo Puccini opera Turandot whose name translates as 'Let no one sleep' (6,5) |
| WATERBED | When initially a peerage cropped up, did one sleep on it? |
| DRAUGHT | Has the doctor anything to help one sleep? (7) |
| LIEIN | Prolonged rest in bed following a night's sleep; a duvet day (3-2) |
| TRAPEZOID | One cutting sleep a bit, rising in shape |