| SHENANDOAH | River referenced to in the first verse of John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads (10) |
| WESTVIRGINIA | The "home" in John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" |
| LEA | English river referenced in an Adele song |
| LOSTBOYS | The ___ ___: 1987 film whose title is referenced to characters in J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan (4,4) |
| ABOUTTURN | A match on square to what Keats referenced to change opinion (5,4) |
| MORE | Fragment of Ecce Homo referenced to boot (4) |
| JOHNDENVER | American singersongwriter whose hits included Leaving On A Jet Plane and Take Me Home, Country Roads (4,6) |
| VILLANELLE | A poem with six verses, all ending with the first or last line of the first verse |
| GATHERINGWINTERFUEL | Activity of the poor man encountered in the first verse of 1A |
| OER | Contraction sung twice in the first verse of "The Star-Spangled Banner" |
| LORE | Rhyme for "door" and "more" in the first verse of "The Raven" |
| TAKEMEHOME | John Denver's 'Country Roads' request |
| DENVER | John _, American singersongwriter whose hits included Take Me Home, Country Roads (6) |
| GENII | Creative powers in the first verse of the Bible? |
| MAMA | Word belted out by Freddie Mercury in the first verse of "Bohemian Rhapsody" |
| EEL | Sea creature in the first verse of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" |
| TAKE | "___ Me Home, Country Roads" (John Denver song selected by the West Virginia delegation as their walk-on music when casting their votes at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week) |
| BLUERIDGE | Range mentioned in "Take Me Home, Country Roads" |
| WVA | State in "Take Me Home, Country Roads" (Abbr.) |
| NONE | Last word in the first verse of "Old Mother Hubbard" |
