| THROWASPANNER | Cause confusion with current name given to Casterbridge, it's said, by intros to Thomas Hardy e-book |
| EGDON | Holst's tone poem ____ Heath is subtitled "A Homage to Thomas Hardy" |
| RENOWN | Concerned with current name or reputation (6) |
| INCOHERENT | Confused by intro, hence wandering off (10) |
| BOULDERS | Mixed doubles interrupted by intro from Rolling Stones (8) |
| PEAKDISTRICT | Don't start to talk to detective fooled, it's said, by English National Park (4,8) |
| RECORDPLAYER | Name later applied in the UK to Thomas Edison's 1877 invention (6,6) |
| KNOLE | Former archbishop's palace in Sevenoaks, granted to Thomas Sackville by Elizabeth I in 1566 (5) |
| BURGLARS | Rob's in the house with listening device taking in record's opening intros to Like a Rolling Stone (8) |
| SIGNON | Function, it's said, by side to claim benefit (4,2) |
| GATEKEEPER | Way of walking, it's said, by zoo employee as entrance guard (10) |
| BOYBAND | Aggressive youth's return prohibited it's said by Westlife for example (3,4) |
| STARR | Sir Ringo _, gave a voice to Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends (5) |
| MAYOR | 1886 novel by Thomas Hardy, The _ Of Casterbridge (5) |
| OWLS | Intros to One Week Last Summer for the fly-by-nights (4) |
| PUB | Local intros to pop-up book (3) |
| ICELOLLIES | Lie fabricated about principal in Casterbridge, Hardy's answer to get licked (3,7) |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in the Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge who marries Lucetta Templeman |
| HENCHARD | Michael ?, hay-trusser; title character in 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| MICHAELHENCHARD | Titular protagonist of the 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor Of Casterbridge (7,8) |
