| WENLOCKEDGE | Limestone escarpment in Shropshire, celebrated by AE Housman and Vaughan Williams (7,4) |
| NINTH | Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorak, Bruckner, Mahler and Vaughan Williams all died soon after or while composing which number symphony? (5) |
| EARDLEY | The ___ Escarpment, in the National Capital Region's Gatineau Park |
| EDGES | Regional dialect for limestone escarpments; another word for borders; or, cutting parts of knives (5) |
| LAD | A Shropshire ___, collection of poems by AE Housman |
| ASHROPSHIRELAD | "Six songs from ____" is George Butterworth's 1911 baritone and piano setting of poems by AE Housman |
| GRANDCANYON | Steep-sided cleft between escarpments carved by the Colorado River in Arizona - and a cultivar of hosta! (5,6) |
| SARAHHARMER | Canadian singer/ songwriter starring in the 2006 documentary "escarpment blues": 2 wds. |
| QALQASHANDI | In the early 15th century, the Egyptian encyclopaedist al-___ included several cryptographic systems in his a¹¢uba¸¥ al-aE¿shAÂ. |
| THELADS | "____ in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair" (AE Housman) |
| ERETO | "___ the wind's twelve quarters I take my endless way"--AE Housman |
| SHROPSHIRE | A ___ Lad (1896 collection of AE Housman poems) (10) |
| SYMPHONY | Relative goes around yard with a measure of speed and is first? Yes, and Vaughan Williams's second, for example (8) |
| DIFFUGERE | & 22 The snows are fled away, Horace Odes 4.7.1 (trans. AE Housman) [two-word answer] |
| SARAHS | McLachlan and Vaughan |
| CARTRIDGE | Explosive container in farm vehicle by escarpment (9) |
| REASSESS | Take another look at those characters taken in by Ulysses's AE Russell in retrospect (8) |
| CHILTERN | - Hills; AONB with a chalk escarpment overlooking the Vale of Aylesbury and the Chequers Estate (8) |
| EDGE | Arrange weekend with log cabin initially on this Shropshire escarpment (7,4) |
| WENLOCK | Arrange weekend with log cabin initially on this Shropshire escarpment (7,4) |
