| CLOSESEASON | A period in which the hunting of game is illegal |
| FIT | Any of the eight sections of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark |
| BELLMAN | "‘Just the place for a Snark!' the ____ cried" (The Hunting of the Snark) |
| SNARK | Fictional animal species created by Lewis Carroll in his nonsense poem, The Hunting of the ___; Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was born in Daresbury in 1832 (5) |
| THELADYOFTHELAKE | Poem by Sir Walter Scott which begins with the hunting of a stag in the Trossachs (3,4,2,3,4) |
| FALCONRY | The hunting of wild animals by means of a trained bird of prey (8) |
| CARROLL | Writer of the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark |
| BOOJUM | 'For the Snark was a ___, you see' (Lewis Carroll 'The Hunting of the Snark' (1876), closing line) (6) |
| BATT | Mike ?, songwriter and composer of 1984 musical The Hunting of the Snark (4) |
| LEWISCARROLL | Author of The Hunting of the Snark (5,7) |
| JUBJUBBIRD | Desperate creature in Lewis Carroll's poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark |
| RURAL | Republican fellow in pursuit of game is characteristic of country life (5) |
| RESTORATION | Historical period in which the others get a speech (11) |
| AGONY | The Hunting of the Snark (An - in 8 Fits) nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll (5) |
| ADHOC | Notice first half of game is for a particular purpose |
| PEEK | Object of game is getting back the prize, with luck finally (4) |
| PUCK | Object of game is getting back the prize, with luck finally (4) |
| ROMANTIC | 18th century period in which the emotions ran wild in Keats' poetry or Berlioz's music |
| OPENER | First of a series of games is key (6) |
| JURASSIC | Period in which the earliest birds appeared |
