| CHRONICLE | Sonnet 106: When in the ___ of wasted time / I see descriptions of the fairest wights / And beauty making beautiful old rhyme / In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights |
| FOURTHDIMENSION | Hums rendition of Wasted Time |
| STOWED | Start to see description of a fiancee, say, put in place (6) |
| RECEPTIVE | Open-minded creep wasted time - I have to follow |
| WILLIAMSON | Noted for his descriptions of nature, the countryside and of the First World War, author of the A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series and Tarka the Otter (10) |
| RAREST | Bring flowers of the fairest / Bring flowers of the ... (hymn) |
| SOLENT | The ___, body of water between the Isle of Wight and the British mainland (6) |
| HOURI | This time I see the nymph of the Muslim paradise (5) |
| STEP | "Every time I see you in the world, you always ___ to my girl" (Vampire Weekend lyric) |
| SNOW | When the wicked Queen asked, "Magic Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?", she wasn't happy to be told it was ... White |
| ALUM | _ Bay is located on the western coast of the Isle of Wight and is famed for its multicoloured sand cliffs (4) |
| REDSQUIRREL | Rodent now confined in England to the Isle of Wight and Brownsea Island in Dorset (3,8) |
| CLARE | Poet noted for descriptions of English rural life in works such as The Shepherd's Calendar, Summer Images, Farm Breakfast, The Badger and The Yellowhammer's Nest (5) |
| ENOLAGAY | Two descriptions of Daffyd in the village, the first about dropper of bombshell (5,3) |
| OVERTHEBAR | Biko's last part of speech about the African rights leaders gives trajectory of wasted shot (4,3,3) |
| ONMYKNEES | "Every time I see you falling, I get down ___ and pray" |
| TEARS | Regular provider of the fairest rents (5) |
| MIRROR | Indicator of the fairest? |
| SNOWWHITE | She was the fairest of them all, according to the mirror on the wall (4,5) |
| THENEEDLES | Isle of Wight's famous landmark in the form of three chalk stacks (3,7) |
