| OBSCURE | Descriptive of Thomas Hardy's Jude |
| TESS | First name in the title of Roman Polanski's 1979 film adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1891 novel (4) |
| VYE | Eustacia ___, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native |
| HEATH | Setting of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (5,5) |
| EGDON | Setting of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (5,5) |
| JOHNLOVEDAY | The trumpet major of Thomas Hardy's novel |
| WESSEX | Setting of Thomas Hardy's novels (6) |
| UNDERTHEGREENWOODTREE | The first of Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels |
| EVERDENE | Surname of Thomas Hardy's character Bathsheba (8) |
| JUDE | --- The Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's completed novels, in which the protagonist falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead (4) |
| JUDEFAWLEY | Protagonist of Thomas Hardy's last completed novel (4,6) |
| BATHSHEBA | Heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Modding Crowd (9,8) |
| BRIDEHEAD | Sue ___, Jude's eventual lover in Hardy's Jude the Obscure (9) |
| DONN | Arabella, character in Hardy's Jude the Obscure (4) |
| SUEBRIDEHEAD | Love interest of Jude Fawley in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure |
| DORSET | Main county reflected in Thomas Hardy's Wessex; site of a Neolithic cursus spanning part of the chalk downlands of Cranborne Chase (6) |
| ANGELCLARE | Husband of Tess in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| EUSTACIA | ___ Vye, character in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (8) |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (7) |
| CLYMYEOBRIGHT | 'The native' in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (4,9) |
