| DOWSON | Poet who wrote Decorations in Verse and Prose (1899) |
| NERVI | Italian architect recalled in verse - and oddly overlooked |
| ENVOI | A postscript in certain forms of verse and prose (5) |
| LAWSON | Name a renowned Australian writer of verse and prose, Henry ... (6) |
| LESILLUMINATIONS | Song cycle by Benjamin Britten which are settings of verse and prose poems by Rimbaud (3,13) |
| YOUNG | Poet who wrote collections including The White Blackbird, Speak to the Earth and The Green Man and prose-study of rare British wild flora A Prospect of Flowers (5) |
| DEMOSTHENES | Athenian orator and prose writer who died in 322 BC |
| HEINE | Heinrich ?, German poet and prose writer whose works include Deutschland: Ein Wintermarchen and Atta |
| SHAKESPEARE | The "father" of English Literature and prose. His plays often play with gender roles and leave room for queer interpretations. Wrote over half of his sonnets for "the fair youth." |
| FOSSE | Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable" (October, 2023) |
| CERVANTES | Miguel de ___, Spanish dramatist, poet, and prose writer best known for Don Quixote |
| WILLIAMBLAKE | Poet and painter leave piece of verse and pigment |
| BADGE | An item studied or collected with medals, orders of merit, ribbons and other decorations in the branch of numismatics known as phaleristics (5) |
| HOLLYWOOD | Source of Christmas decorations in California |
| EARLOBES | Man entitled to wear decorations in these? |
| AIRRAIDS | Attacks decorations in Barnet, snipping the tops (3,5) |
| SASHES | Decorations in the windows (6) |
| DSCS | U.S. Army decorations, in brief |
| COORDINATES | Harmonises decorations in a make-over |
| TREES | Festive decorations in the Portree streets (5) |
