| GERTRUDESTEIN | Poet with a famous line that the rhymes in 13-, 14-, 25- and 27-Down hint at |
| MAGINOT | Frenchman with a famous line |
| ODD | Like the numbers 23 25 and 27 |
| VOTES | Some upset over reversing 25 and 27 (5) |
| ENGLISH | "I can talk ___, I can walk ___, I can laugh ___...": fill in the blanks to get the beginning of a famous line from the movie Namak Halal |
| SCHEME | Planned combination of colours in interior design; or, a pattern of rhymes in a poem (6) |
| OFF | Word that can follow the first parts of 17- and 60- Across and 11- and 27- Down to form baseball ter |
| CHRONICLE | Sonnet 106: When in the ___ of wasted time / I see descriptions of the fairest wights / And beauty making beautiful old rhyme / In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights |
| EMBRYONIC | Recalled me being like a Romantic poet (with a twist) in the early stages (9) |
| BRANDO | "I could have been a contender" is a famous line spoken by which actor? (6) |
| JANETHEVIRGIN | Comedy-drama, based on a telenovela, that premiered 10/13/14: 3 wds. |
| GROUCHO | Crab and duck featured as 1, 12, 13, 14, 16, 23 and 24 (7) |
| SONNET | A poem of 14 lines that rhyme in a fixed pattern (6) |
| CYRANO | ____ de Bergerac, soldier and poet with a huge nose created by poet Edmond Rostand (6) |
| HICKORY | First word of the nursery rhyme in which 'the mouse ran up the clock' (7) |
| AXIS | The imaginary line that the earth rotates on |
| ASIDE | Line that the audience hears but the other characters don't |
| OROMEO | Start of a famous line from a balcony |
| STAGE | "All the world," per a famous line from Shakespeare |
| BANG | Big -; cosmological theory or model describing or postulating how the observable universe exploded into existence 13-14 billion years ago (4) |
