| RESPIGHI | Italian composer of tone poems such as Fountains of Rome (8) |
| SMETANA | Czech composer of the cycle of tone poems Ma Vlast (7) |
| OTTORINO | Italian composer whose works include The Fountains of Rome and The Pines of Rome (8,8) |
| MACNEICE | Louis ---, Belfast-born writer of poems such as Snow (1935) |
| ECLOGUES | Short pastoral poems such as those by Virgil (8) |
| BALLADES | Tone poems. |
| LASVEGAS | U.S. city that features the Fountains of Bellagio (3,5) |
| OTTORINORESPIGHI | Composer of The Pines of Rome and The Fountains of Rome |
| MASERATI | Car maker with a logo based on part of Bologna's Fountain of Neptune |
| MARVELL | 17th-century writer of poems such as To His Coy Mistress |
| AYRES | Pam ---, writer of humorous poems such as Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth |
| LEAR | Edward ___, 19th-century English humorist noted for nonsense poems such as The Jumblies (4) |
| EPYLLIA | Comparatively short narrative poems such as Hermes by Philitas or Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| LYADOV | Russian composer of the tone poems, Baba Yaga, Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake (6) |
| ODES | Poems such as "To Autumn" |
| EPICS | Long poems such as Paradise Lost |
| EPIC | Long narrative poem such as Beowulf, The Song of Roland, Homer's Iliad or Virgil's Aeneid (4) |
| HAIKU | Type of poem, such as Matsuo Basho's 'In the twilight rain/these brilliant-hued hibiscus.../A lovely sunset' (5) |
| OTTAVARIMA | Meaning "eighth rhyme", a poem such as Giovanni Boccaccio's Il Filostrato (6,4) |
| SYMPHONIC | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ poem, such as George Gershwin's An American In Paris (9) |
