“Tom-Tom, is dinner nearly ready yet?”

8 across ‘Cruel girl makes poet thrall.’

So it begins: The Sunday lunch duet.

Try to ignore her and she might forget.

10 letters, anagram: LEVEL IN ALL

“Tom-Tom, is dinner nearly ready yet?”

“It’s in the oven, have a cigarette!”

Concentrate Tom, you are starting to stall.

And so it goes: The Sunday lunch duet.

I can’t do the crossword with constant fret.

Don’t want to buckle and give Mum a call.

Always, “Is dinner nearly ready yet?”

“I need a little snack. Don’t be upset.”

Leaves the door open and the Yorkshires fall.

And so it goes: The Sunday lunch duet.

Her half-finished dinner left to sweat,

Atop the paper now covered in scrawl.

“Tom-Tom, did you finish the crossword yet?”

There ends every Sunday lunch duet.