| JOHNBUNYAN | Author of 1678 Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (4,6) |
| BUNYAN | Author and preacher imprisoned for his faith, during which he penned his spiritual autobiography Grace Abounding and began the Christian allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (6) |
| TITUSOATES | Renegade Anglican priest who fabricated the Popish Plot of 1678 (5,5) |
| GIANTDESPAIR | Owner of Doubting Castle in John Bunyan allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (5,7) |
| DESPAIR | Giant ____, owner of Doubting Castle in John Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (7) |
| VANITYFAIR | Year-long festival founded by 'Beezlebub, Apollyon and Legion' in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (6,4) |
| VERSAILLES | Capital of the Yvelines department in northern France; site of a royal palace built for Louis XIV c. 1661-1678 (10) |
| POPISHPLOT | Conspiracy fabricated by Titus Oates in 1678 resulting in multiple executions and the Exclusion Bill Crisis (6,4) |
| ALLFORLOVE | 1678 play by John Dryden (3,3,4) |
| SLOUGHOFDESPOND | Deep bog lying between the City of Destruction and the Wicket Gate in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (6,2,7) |
| OATES | Clergyman and conspirator who fabricated the Popish Plot of 1678 (5) |
| PEVERILOFTHEPEAK | 1823 novel by Walter Scott whose background is the Popish Plot of 1678 |
| TITUS | English conspirator who fabricated the Popish Plot of 1678 (5,5) |
| PEAK | 1823 novel by Walter Scott whose background is the Popish Plot of 1678 (7,2,3,4) |
| PEVERILOFTHE | 1823 novel by Walter Scott whose background is the Popish Plot of 1678 (7,2,3,4) |
| DUNBAR | Which Scottish poet at the court of James IV wrote the political allegory The Thistle and the Rose ( |
| DREAM | 'So I awoke, and behold it was a ___' (John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (5) |
| SPENSER | English poet whose epic allegory The Faerie Queene celebrates the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I (7) |
| PILGRIMS | The ____ Progress, Christian allegorical novel by writer John Bunyan published in 1678 (8) |
| ABRAHAM | English manufacturer born in 1678 who perfected the smelting of iron with coke instead of charcoal |
