| BLACKMORE | Author of Lorna Doone, a romance novel set around Somerset and Exmoor during Monmouth's rebellion (9) |
| AMERICANO | Drink in a romance novel set around island |
| RDBLACKMORE | "Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor" novelist |
| SURRENDER | Give up most of county boundaries in Northumberland and Exmoor |
| SEDGEMOOR | Place, near Bridgwater, where Monmouth's rebellion was crushed in 1685 (9) |
| CAMEROON | Love romance novel, set in Africa (8) |
| QUANTOCK | Not unusual having bird call around Somerset hills (8) |
| LORNA | _ Doone: A Romance of Exmoor, 1869 novel by R D Blackmore (5) |
| CLARENDON | 1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor to Charles II, author of The History of the Rebellion (9) |
| JOHNRIDD | Husband of Lorna Doone in Blackmore's novel (4,4) |
| TALEOFTWOCITIES | A ---, 1859 novel set around the time of the French Revolution |
| OCCITAN | Action novel set around castle in old part of Provence, it's said? (7) |
| NOODLE | Wally adapted opening of Lorna Doone |
| AVON | County that was scrapped and split between Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (4) |
| DEADFAMOUS | 2001 Ben Elton novel set around a reality TV show |
| OCTA | An Anglo-Saxon King of Kent during the 6th century who appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae |
| WACE | Author of Roman de Brut based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae (4) |
| GUINEVERE | (GKN) Wife of the legendary King Arthur, first appearing in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Begum Britanniae (c. 1136) (9) |
| ELIMINATE | Get rid of Elaine and Tim in rebellion (9) |
| SPARTACUS | 1960 film about the leader of a Roman slave rebellion (9) |
