| JOHNGILPIN | Draper who was the subject of a 1782 comic ballad by William Cowper |
| PROVIDENCE | 'Behind a frowning ___/He hides a smiling face' (William Cowper Olney Hymns (1779) |
| BERKHAMSTED | The birthplace of William Cowper in Hertfordshire (11) |
| EGG | 'Remorse, the fatal ___ that pleasure laid": William Cowper (3) |
| EDENHALL | "The Luck of --------", English title of a German ballad by Ludwig Uhland, translated by Longfellowv (8) |
| DETESTED | "____ sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain" (William Cowper) |
| RODNEY | George ?, British admiral; victor over the French in the Battle of the Saintes of 1782 |
| HYMN | William Cowper composition |
| BALDEAGLE | This bird may have numbered in the hundreds of thousands when it was declared the American national bird in 1782, but its numbers steadily declined over the next two centuries, owing primarily to huma |
| LADYOFSHALOTT | Features in the title of a ballad by poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (4,2,7) |
| PAUL | Folk hero of the American Revolution, immortalised in a ballad by Henry Longfellow (4,6) |
| REVERE | Folk hero of the American Revolution, immortalised in a ballad by Henry Longfellow (4,6) |
| FATHERWILLIAM | Named subject of a humorous ballad by Lewis Carroll (6,7) |
| HESPERUS | 'The Wreck of the ---', 1841 ballad by Longfellow (8) |
| ROASTBEEF | The ____ of Old England is a patriotic ballad by Fielding |
| EUGENEARAM | English murderer celebrated in a ballad by Thomas Hood and a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| PURPLEHEART | Decoration for members of the US armed forces wounded or killed in action, established as the Badge of Military Merit in 1782 (6,5) |
| JOHNFIELD | Irish composer (1782-1837), pioneer of the Romantic style of piano music, especially nocturnes |
| HOWDEEPISYOUR | ___ Love a pop ballad by the Bee Gees that has featured in movies including Donnie Brasco and Sex and the City: 4 wds. |
| LENORE | Ballad by the German poet Gottfried August Burger based on the Scottish work Sweet William's Ghost (6) |
