| 1 | | Like Hamlet and his rotten state (6) |
| 4 | | Spoil witticism for animal (6) |
| 9 | | Musical locks (4) |
| 10 | | Yearn to associate with poet (10) |
| 11 | | Father comes back with fruit.
Look! (6) |
| 12 | | Sinner in disguise or veiled (8) |
| 13 | | Coats need woven yarns (9) |
| 15 | | Forbidden meat a butcher provides (4) |
| 16 | | Wild cat with sound connections (4) |
| 17 | | Came back on a diet anew and
wasted away (9) |
| 21 | | Poet composing sonnet about New
York (8) |
| 22 | | Give up work and go to bed (6) |
| 24 | | Dance in West Virginia (10) |
| 25 | | Reverberation in the choir (4) |
| 26 | | Comparison I show amusement about (6) |
| 27 | | Menace of mad hatter (6) |