| OKRI | Ben ?, author of the novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (4) |
| OKRA | Ben ?, author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (4) |
| BENOKRI | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (3,4) |
| BEN | Author of novels The Famished Road and In Arcadia (3,4) |
| ROAD | The Famished - - -, Ben Okri novel (4) |
| ITOO | "___ was born in Arcadia" |
| 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) |
| JONSON | Ben ?, author of stage plays The Alchemist and Volpone who died in 1637 (6) |
| 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) |
| ELTON | Ben, author of the novels Stark and Popcorn (5) |
| TRAVERS | Ben ?, author of stage plays Thark and The Bed Before Yesterday (7) |
| MEAD | Lee __, plays nurse Ben ?Lofty" Chiltern in Casualty (4) |
| GUNN | Ben ?, marooned pirate in R L Stevenson novel Treasure Island (4) |
| ERYMANTHIANBOAR | Large, wild beast in Arcadia, captured and destroyed by Hercules as the fourth of his labours (11,4) |
| HECHT | Ben, author of the screenplay for the Alfred Hitchcock film Spellbound (5) |
| JOAN | "___ of Arcadia" (2003-05) |
| MARY | Joan of Arcadia actress, ... Steenburgen |
| STAR | A heavenly body found in West Arcadia |
| BELL | Strictly speaking, what is Big Ben? (4) |
