| THOMASHARDY | Author of Far From the Madding Crowd and The Mayor of Casterbridge (6, 5) |
| HARDY | Thomas _, author of Far from the Madding Crowd (5) |
| THOMAS | Author of Far From The Madding Crowd, - - - Hardy (6) |
| TERENCE | and 12dn, English actor whose films include The Collector, Far From The Madding Crowd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| STAMP | see 43dn, English actor whose films include The Collector, Far From The Madding Crowd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| WESSEX | Part of England associated with the author of The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Return of the Native (6) |
| SCRUMPTIOUS | Lovely crowd, and God-fearing - about time (11) |
| DONALDFARFRAE | Rival of Michael Henchard in Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (6,7) |
| MICHAELHENCHARD | Titular protagonist of the 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor Of Casterbridge (7,8) |
| SWAM | Did reel cut end of Far from the Madding Crowd? |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in the Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge who marries Lucetta Templeman |
| ALAN | Bates of "Far From the Madding Crowd" |
| BATHSHEBA | ___ Everdene, heroine of Far from the Madding Crowd (9) |
| HENCHARD | Michael ____ is the Mayor of Casterbridge in Hardy's novel |
| ODOWD | Surname of Chris, star of The IT Crowd and Moone Boy (5) |
| ITSBEYONDOURKEN | ... we don't understand and the Mayor can't deliver (3,6,3,3) |
| WILLIAM | Forename of a Lake poet who described glow-worms as Earth-born stars, an evening as beauteous and calm, a multitude of golden daffodils as a host and a crowd and himself as a lonely floating cloud (7) |
| ELIAS | Bulgarian-born British author of novels including Auto-da-Fe (1935) and the non-fiction work Crowds and Power (1960); Nobel Prize in Literature (1981) (5) |
| LEA | Actress Michele of Glee and The Mayor |
| EXTREMISM | The holding of far from moderate views |
