| FARFROM | - - the Madding Crowd; Thomas Hardy's Wessex novel about the heroine Bathsheba Everdene (3,4) |
| UNDERTHEGREENWOODTREE | The first of Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels |
| DORSET | Main county reflected in Thomas Hardy's Wessex; site of a Neolithic cursus spanning part of the chalk downlands of Cranborne Chase (6) |
| GABRIEL | The shepherd devoted to Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Madding Crowd (7,3) |
| OAK | The shepherd devoted to Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Madding Crowd (7,3) |
| SHEBANG | Ms Everdene leaving Somerset city with knight - grand affair! (7) |
| SERGEANT | ____ Troy, character who marries Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Madding Crowd (8) |
| FAR | ___ from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy novel |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (7) |
| SOLOMON | Son of David and Bathsheba who became king of Israel (7) |
| OBSCURE | Jude the ___ , Thomas Hardy's last novel (7) |
| THOMASHARDY | English novelist who created the characters Angel Clare and Bathsheba Everdene (6,5) |
| HARDY | Dorset-born author who wrote the Wessex novels including Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (5) |
| EVERDENE | Bathsheba, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd (8) |
| BATHSHEBA | ___ Everdene, heroine of Far from the Madding Crowd (9) |
| MAIDENCASTLE | The last of John Cowper Powys's Wessex novels, published in 1936 (6,6) |
| GABRIELOAK | Shepherd whom Bathsheba eventually marries in Far from the Madding Crowd (7,3) |
| VYE | Eustacia ___, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native |
| CLYMYEOBRIGHT | 'The native' in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (4,9) |
| CLYM | ___ Yeobright, titular character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native (1878) (4) |
