| FAERIES | Creatures of which Gloriana is the "Queene," in a work by Edmund Spenser |
| LAMPREYS | Aquatic creatures of which Henry I is said to have eaten a surfeit before his death (8) |
| SEAHORSE | Marine creature of which the male incubates fertilised eggs (8) |
| PRESS | Iron out some flaws in a work by an Impressionist (5) |
| HYDE | Jekyll's alter ego in a work by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| AURORALEIGH | Goddess, British actress, in a work by Browning |
| PROTHALAMION | Spousal verse by Edmund Spenser, in honour of two daughters of the Earl of Worcester |
| GLORIANA | Nickname of Queen Elizabeth I, originated by Edmund Spenser in the 1590 epic poem The Faerie Queene (8) |
| AMORETTI | Cherubs, cupids or putti in art; or, a sonnet cycle by Edmund Spenser (8) |
| FAERIE | The _ Queene, epic poem by Edmund Spenser (6) |
| CHAUCER | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| GEOFFREY | First poet interred in Westminster Abbey's Poets Corner 1400), followed by Edmund Spenser in 1599 (8,7) |
| FAERIEQUEENE | The ?, 1590 epic poem by Edmund Spenser (6,6) |
| THEFAERIEQUEENE | 16th-century poem by Edmund Spenser (3,6,6) |
| LAY | "Discord oft in music makes the sweeter ____" (Edmund Spenser, in The Faerie Queene) |
| ALADDIN | Depicted in illustrations by Edmund Dulac and animations by Disney, a character whose adventures are described by Scheherazade in the Arabian Nights (7) |
| VIOLETS | "She bath'd with roses red, and - blew, And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew." Sir Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (7) |
| PAYSAGE | From French for "countryside", a word for a landscape; or, a depiction of said natural scenery in a work of art (7) |
| ICONOLOGY | Study of the meanings contained within the symbols in a work of art (9) |
| MOORCOCK | Michael ___, author of the novels Gloriana and The Final Programme (8) |
