| CONVERSE | Discuss how'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' may be described? (8) |
| WILDECARDS | Pieces of pasteboard with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" printed on them? |
| WILDE | "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" author Oscar |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish dramatist whose last work was The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) |
| MAGNOLIA | The main gaol may be rendered in light pinkish-white (8) |
| WILD | Report of one-time occupant of Reading gaol being unruly (4) |
| BALLAD | The ___ Of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde poem (6) |
| USING | Inmates gripped by virus in gaol may be on drugs? (5) |
| GAOL | Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading ___' |
| IODOUS | How I may be described is receiving a lot of stink |
| SMUG | Face of self-satisfied idiot, or how it may be described (4) |
| COP | The world will gather in Glasgow from now until November to discuss how countries can reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. A shorter word for a police officer; it has been held 26 times. |
| OSCAR | ___ Wilde the Irish playwright who wrote De Profundis during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol |
| ARGUE | With reasoning discuss how to urge a reform (5) |
| DEBATE | Discuss how young lady dined (6) |
| NEGOTIATE | Discuss how wrongly I get no tea (9) |
| LITERACY | Reading Gaol's closure years after it goes over limits of capacity (8) |
| THESTAFFOF | How bread may be described (3,5,2,4) |
| LIFE | How bread may be described (3,5,2,4) |
| ACRONYM | So to speak, say, how such a word may be described (7) |
