| ORIGINOFSPECIES | Classic of 1859, with "The" |
| INDIA | World's second-most populous country, where modern polo originated in 1859 with the foundation of the sport's first club in Silchar (5) |
| DARWIN | Charles ?, author of 1859 scientific work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (6) |
| OMARKHAYYAM | "The Rubaiyat of ... ...", 1859 translation of 12th Century Persian poems by Edward Fitzgerald (4,7) |
| MEREDITH | George ___, author of 1859 novel The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (8) |
| SILENTNIGHT | Song of 1859 ... or what the five circled letters represent? |
| GONCHAROV | Ivan ?, author of 1859 novel Oblomov |
| FAUST | Charles Gounod opera of 1859 |
| STLEGER | One of the five classics of the flat-racing season and the final leg of the English Triple Crown (2,5) |
| WAR | Title of the 2005 blockbuster movie based on HG Wells' sci-fi classic, ...Of The Worlds |
| END | EM Forster's classic of the class struggle in turn of the century England, Howards ... |
| OMEN | Occult classic of 1976, with "The" |
| OMAR | Classic of Persian poetry, The Rubaiyat Of ... Khayyam |
| BLOB | Sci-fi classic of 1958 (with "The") |
| SECRETGARDEN | Classic of English children's literature, with "The" |
| RISING | "House of the ___ Sun" (Animals classic of 1964) |
| CRISTO | Alexandre Dumas's adventure classic of betrayal and revenge, The Count of Monte ... |
| THEWAR | H.G. Wells classic, ...of the Worlds (3,3) |
| SHI | "___ Jing" (classic of the Confucian canon) |
| OUT | Film noir classic, "- of the past" |
