| STOKEPOGES | Buckinghamshire Village where Thomas Gray was inspired to write his famous Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5,5) |
| BUTTOTHEGRAVE | Where Thomas Gray's "paths of glory" lead |
| WHITBY | North Yorkshire resort where Irish author Bram Stoker was inspired to write Dracula (6) |
| BALTIMOREHARBOR | Where 24-Across was inspired to write 65-Across |
| GILDTHELILY | "Luckily, my replacement blooms grew in beautifully. In fact, I was inspired to ___ by planting an extra row!" |
| POGES | Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5,5) |
| STOKE | Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5,5) |
| TURF | 'Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade/Where heaves the ___ in many a mouldering heap' (Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751) |
| BLUSH | 'Full many a flower is born to ___ unseen' (Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751 l.55) (5) |
| NINETYTHREE | At this age, W.E.B. Du Bois moved to Ghana to write his Encyclopedia Africana; he died there two years later |
| YEW | Shade provider in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
| LEA | Locale for a lowing herd in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
| FARFROMTHEMADDINGCROWD | Thomas Hardy novel whose title comes from Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| HOLINSHED | Who is the author of the source that Shakespeare used to write his play? |
| NEWYORK | This city's Philharmonic orchestra commissioned Dvorak to write his ninth symphony (3,4) |
| EINSTEIN | 'When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity,' said Albert .... in explaining his famous theory |
| SIGN | Leo, for instance, has to write his name |
| KNELL | "The curfew tolls the ___ of parting day...": Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5) |
| GRAY | Thomas , poet widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4) |
| VENICE | Where Thomas Mann found love and death in his 15/19 from 1912? (6) |
