| BENOKRI | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (3,4) |
| BEN | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia |
| OKRA | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (3,4) |
| OKRI | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (3,4) |
| POUSSIN | French classical artist who painted A Dance to the Music of Time, the Venetian-inspired The Nurture of Bacchus, the pastoral Et in Arcadia ego and The Four Seasons series (7) |
| AZARO | The spirit child narrator of Ben Okri's The Famished Road (5) |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| UTOPIAS | Imaginary ideal lands, such as Arcadia and Cockaigne (7) |
| DIAGRAM | Arcadia, grammatically including a line drawing (7) |
| HUNGARY | Ageing leader in famished country (7) |
| STARVED | A few coming in looked famished (7) |
| HEAVENS | Arcadias |
| ERYMANTHIANBOAR | Large, wild beast in Arcadia, captured and destroyed by Hercules as the fourth of his labours (11,4) |
| ROAD | The Famished - - -, Ben Okri novel (4) |
| BASSAE | Ancient Greek municipality in Arcadia; its temple of Apollo Epicurius is a World Heritage Site (6) |
| THIGHSOFRELIEF | Turkey servings for the famished? |
| WHENDOWEEAT | Query from the famished |
| SIDNEY | Born at Penshurst Place in 1554 and fatally wounded in battle 31 years later, a poet, soldier and courtier who wrote the pastoral prose romance Arcadia (6) |
| ITOO | "___ was born in Arcadia" |
| ATHENA | Goddess later found in the outskirts of Arcadia |
