| GAOL | Oscar Wilde poem, The Ballad of Reading ___ |
| EROS | Oscar Wilde poem "The Garden of ___" |
| EDNA | Real forename of "Nancy Boyd", who penned A Few Figs from Thistles and 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning poem The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (4) |
| BALLAD | The ___ Of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde poem (6) |
| ARNO | Oscar Wilde poem "By the ___" |
| WILDE | "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" author Oscar |
| WILDECARDS | Pieces of pasteboard with "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" printed on them? |
| READINGGAOL | The Ballad Of _ _, poem by Oscar Wilde (7,4) |
| READING | 'The Ballad of -- Gaol', poem by Oscar Wilde (7) |
| DEI | "Fabien ___ Franchi" (Oscar Wilde poem) |
| OSCARWILDE | Irish dramatist whose last work was The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) |
| CONVERSE | Discuss how'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' may be described? (8) |
| FERE | "The Ballad of the Goodly ___" (Ezra Pound poem about the crucifixion) |
| COEN | Last name of the directors of "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs" |
| MACK | Written as part of Weill and Brecht's musical drama, The Threepenny Opera, was The Ballad Of ... The |
| RAA | "The Ballad of the _ _ _" by current band The Rural Alberta Advantage |
| ALBEE | Edward ___, author of The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (5) |
| LIAO | Ashley of "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" |
| BILBO | "The Ballad of ___ Baggins" (Lord of the Rings-themed song by, weirdly, Leonard Nimoy) |
| SNOW | "Pure As the Driven ___" (song featured in "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes") |
