| CUMBRIA | A county described by William Wordsworth in his poems and Guide to the Lakes; location of John Ruskin's former home Brantwood on the shore of Coniston Water (7) |
| ITHACA | Using a vehicle, knock out kerbs in Finger Lakes location (6) |
| LOUGHREE | Irish lake location of International Pike Festival (*or eel, ugh!) (5,3) |
| SEDONA | Location of John McCain's ranch |
| IONA | Small island of the Inner Hebrides described by William Wordsworth (1833) |
| EECUMMINGS | Author known for using lowercase letters in his poems |
| COUPLETS | Exploit rented short-term homes? Betjeman would put them in his poems (8) |
| SHROPSHIRE | County described as "that mysterious and romantic land" by Stanley Baldwin |
| RYDAL | ____ Mount, family home of poet William Wordsworth in the Lake District (5) |
| BLOOD | Oxygenating fluid described by William Harvey in De Motu Cordis; around 6,000 donations are needed d |
| WYE | Immortalised in paintings by J. M. W. Turner and a poem by William Wordsworth, a river and a valley of the same name in an AONB containing Tintern Abbey and Symonds Yat (3) |
| DAFFODILS | Forming drifts in spring and described in a poem by William Wordsworth, flowers in the genus Narcissus used as symbols of Saint David and Wales (9) |
| MOORE | Who wrote in his poem The Night Before Christmas: "And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof The |
| VANESSA | First name invented by Jonathan Swift for his paramour in his later life, immortalized in his poem" |
| LYRICALBALLADS | A collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge first published in 1798 |
| LYRICAL | A collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge first published in 1798 (7,7) |
| BALLADS | A collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge first published in 1798 (7,7) |
| SCHWITTERS | Artist who fled Nazi Germany to the Lake District where he sought both refuge and refuse by means of peace and by the found objects or rubbish for his "Merz" collages (10) |
| CELANDINE | Lesser -; described in a poem by William Wordsworth, a wild spring perennial with yellow star-shaped flowers that retract prior to rain (9) |
| SATANIC | ___ mills, term used by William Blake in his poem Jerusalem to describe Britain's industrial landscape (7) |
