| STOKEPOGES | Buckinghamshire village believed to have the churchyard in which Gray's Elegy was written |
| DARKESTHOUR | 2017 biopic in which Gray Oldman played Prime Minister Winston Churchill: 2 wds. |
| HALCYON | Bird believed to have the power to calm the sea during the winter solstice |
| EVILEYE | Look that is believed to have the power of inflicting harm (4,3) |
| 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) |
| GRAYSELEGY | It was written in a churchyard in town in Essex before, say, in city in Cambridgeshire (5,5) |
| GRAY | Old Etonian and Cantabrigian whose anonymous elegy written in, and expressing the evening mood of, an English churchyard in Stoke Poges achieved instantaneous success on its publication in 1751 (4) |
| STOKEMANDEVILLE | Buckinghamshire village in which the Paralympic Games originated in July 1948 (5,10) |
| KNELL | "The curfew tolls the ___ of parting day...": Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5) |
| LEA | "The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the ___" (Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) (3) |
| PYTHON | Heydon was used for filming the classic Monty ... sketch, The Idiot in Society, where John ... dressed in a smock and fell backwards into the churchyard (6 and 6) |
| CLEESE | Heydon was used for filming the classic Monty ... sketch, The Idiot in Society, where John ... dressed in a smock and fell backwards into the churchyard (6 and 6) |
| 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) |
| YEW | Shade provider in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
| JUSTMEANDYEW | "Only the two of us," said the lonely guy in the churchyard? |
| TRUANCY | After the churchyard gate was removed, it became truly chancy to indulge in class-skipping (7) |
| HEARSE | The arsenic had a way of carrying the victim off to the churchyard (6) |
| CHALFONT | ___ St Giles, Buckinghamshire village in which Milton's Cottage is a tourist attraction (8) |
| BLUSH | 'Full many a flower is born to ___ unseen' (Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751 l.55) (5) |
