| VYE | "The Return of the Native" vamp Eustacia __ |
| WESSEX | Part of England associated with the author of The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Return of the Native (6) |
| HARDY | Author of the classic The Return of the Native, Thomas _(5) |
| EUSTACIAVYE | Wife of Clym Yeobright in the Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (8,3) |
| CLYMYEOBRIGHT | 'The native' in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (4,9) |
| EGDON | Setting of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (5,5) |
| HEATH | Setting of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (5,5) |
| EGDONHEATH | Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| YEOBRIGHT | Clym, character in the Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (9) |
| EUSTACIA | "The Return of the Native" heroine __ Vye |
| DIGGORYVENN | Reddleman in 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| DIGGORY | Reddleman in 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (7,4) |
| VENN | Reddleman in 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (7,4) |
| CLYM | Paris diamond merchant; title character in 1878 Thomas Hardy work The Return of the Native (4,9) |
| HEDERA | - helix ; worn as a crown by god of the grape-harvest Dionysus and supporting some 50 species including the blackbird, the Latin name of the native British woodland plant ivy (6) |
| MALLEABILITY | This quality of a metal describes its ability to be flattened under the blows of a hammer into thin sheets without breaking or crumbling into fragments. (Most of the native elements show various degre |
| HIAWATHA | Legendary chief of the Native American Onondaga tribe, credited with the organisation of the Five Nations (8) |
| OSAGE | Member of the Native American people, once occupying the Missouri valley (5) |
| MAORI | A member of the native Polynesian population of New Zealand. (5) |
| AZTEC | A member of the native people dominant in Mexico before the Spanish conquest |
