| 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) |
| STOKEPOGES | Buckinghamshire village in which Thomas Gray is believed to have composed his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| GRAY | Thomas , poet widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4) |
| THOMASGRAY | English poet best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| CHALFONT | ___ St Giles, Buckinghamshire village in which Milton's Cottage is a tourist attraction (8) |
| STOKEMANDEVILLE | Buckinghamshire village in which the Paralympic Games originated in July 1948 (5,10) |
| 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" |
| FARFROMTHEMADDINGCROWD | Thomas Hardy novel whose title comes from Thomas Gray's poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| LEA | Locale for a lowing herd in Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
| BLUSH | 'Full many a flower is born to ___ unseen' (Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751 l.55) (5) |
| KNELL | "The curfew tolls the ___ of parting day...": Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (5) |
| ABAB | Scheme of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" |
| WESSEX | Area in which Thomas Hardy set many of his novels |
| GRAYAREA | Place that inspired 'An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'? |
| THEKNELLOFPARTINGDAY | "The curfew tolls ____" (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) |
| THOMASGRAYPARROT | "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" poet's companion animal? |
| KINDREDSPIRIT | Phrase coined by Thomas Gray in his "Elegy" |
| DORSET | English county in which Thomas Hardy was born (6) |