| ABAA | Rhyme scheme at the end of a villanelle |
| DECOR | Colour scheme at the start of decorated (5) |
| MOSER | Artist known for flower paintings, a floral scheme at Frogmore House commissioned by Queen Charlotte, a portrait of sculptor Joseph Nollekens and for being one of only two female founders of the Royal |
| INTRIGUINGLY | Interestingly, most of the scheme at home is ugly without something on top (12) |
| COIREGLAS | New hydro power scheme at Loch Lochy (5,4) |
| LOCHSLOY | Hydro-electric scheme at Inveruglas (4,4) |
| EVE | Word after Killing gives the title of a series that features assassin Villanelle (3) |
| COMER | Jodie -, actress who played Villanelle in the TV series Killing Eve (5) |
| OKSANA | Villanelle by another name, in the series referenced in 44 |
| KILLINGEVE | British TV series in which Jodie Comer plays the assassin Villanelle |
| EVEPOLASTRI | Fictional British intelligence agent, created by Luke Jennings, featured in the 2018 novel Codename Villanelle (3,8) |
| POETRY | Literary genre with forms including ode, sonnet, villanelle and limerick (6) |
| JODIE | _ Comer, Villanelle in Killing Eve (5) |
| ASSASSIN | "Killing Eve's" Villanelle |
| FOE | Villanelle, to Eve (3) |
| JODIECOMER | Brand to pass on to one arriving with Villanelle (5,5) |
| POEM | Villanelle or haiku, e.g. |
| POEMS | Villanelles, e.g. (5) |
| ABCB | Rhyme scheme of the first verse of "Mary had a little lamb" |
| CHAUCER | Fourteenth-century English poet who introduced rhyme royal, a rhyme scheme of the form ABABBCC |
