| ROSSETTI | Dante Gabriel -, poet |
| INSOMNIA | Poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (8) |
| PRERAPHAELITE | English artist such as Holman Hunt or Dante Gabriel Rossetti (3-10) |
| APPLE | Pomaceous fruit depicted in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Venus Verticordia (5) |
| PROSERPINA | Roman goddess of spring depicted in a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (10) |
| ALAS | "And thin, ___, the shred of sleep": Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
| BEATRIX | Beata -; a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti of his wife (7) |
| DAYDREAM | The - -; Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting of Jane Morris sitting in a bough of sycamore with honeysuckle (3,5) |
| CHELSEA | London district where Dante Gabriel Rossetti shared a house with Algernon Charles Swinburne and an exotic menagerie including wombats (7) |
| WOMBAT | Either of a pair of marsupials kept by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (6) |
| WOMBATS | Marsupials known collectively as a wisdom, such as the two once owned by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (7) |
| WILDING | Uncultivated plant such as the crab-apple; a muse of Dante Gabriel Rossetti; or, Isabella Tree's book about the creation of the Knepp estate (7) |
| STEALTHY | The ____ School of Criticism was Dante Gabriel Rosetti’s response to Robert Buchanan’s attack on the Pre-Raphaelites in The Fleshly School of Poetry |
| JANE | Forename of a Pre-Raphaelite muse and Arts and Crafts embroiderer who was the wife of William Morris, immortalised in The Blue Silk Dress, Water Willow and other paintings by her lover, Dante Gabriel |
| OVID | Roman poet - one vaguely influencing Dante initially |
| GABRIEL | Dante - Rossetti, nineteenth century English poet/painter |
| GUIDO | Italian poet Cavalcanti who influenced Dante |
| CHRISTINA | Believer's name put forward, a fellow-poet close to Dante |
| RAVENNA | Italian city where the poet and moral philosopher Dante died and is buried (7) |
| IFELL | "-- as a dead body...": Dante |
