- BURNS
- TV character with the catchphrase "Excellent!"
- Author of "Tam o' Shanter"
- Cooks way too long
- Seethes
- Allen's straight man
- Buries, like a blackjack card
- Tam O'Shanter poet
- George with a cigar
- Sizzles
- I'd go out with women my age, but there are no women my age speaker
- Hurts, in a way
- He wrote "Halloween"
- Uses for warmth, as wood
- He played God
- Homer Simpson's boss
- The War producer
- Overcooks on the barbecue
- Overcooks
- Goes up in flames
- Really overcooks
- Creates, as a CD
- Author of "The Jolly Beggars" (1759–1796).
- Author of "The Cotter's Saturday Night."
- He wrote "To a Mouse."
- Author of "To a Mouse."
- Farmer poet (1759–96).
- Radio comic.
- Gracie's George.
- Comedian George.
- Robert or George.
- He wrote "Man's inhumanity to man . . . "
- Popular comedian.
- Bard of "Sweet Afton."
- Veteran comedian.
- Plowboy poet.
- Scottish poet.
- George ___ (Nathan Birnbaum)
- Gets too much sun
- George or Robert
- See 18 Across
- Oscar winner in 1975
- Recent Oscar winner
- Poet who wrote "The Holy Fair"
- Allen's partner at the Palace
- He was a cotter's son
- He wrote "Tam o' Shanter"
- Famed nonagenarian
- George and Robert
- Rope injuries
- Scams but good
- They're measured by degrees
- George who was still cracking jokes well into his 90's
- Scalds, e.g.
- Auld Lang Syne writer
- Devilishly clever insults, in slang
- Incinerates ("To a Mouse")
- Overcooks, and then some
- Ruins, as toast
- To a Mouse poet
- Goes up in smoke
- Cooks too long
- Radio/early TV comedy duo half
- God portrayer
- Cauterizes
- Singes
- He was God
- The Ploughman Poet
- Makes, as a CD
- Kitchen injuries
- Effective insults
