| SIDNEY | Elizabethan poet and courtier born at Penshurst Place who wrote the pastoral romance Arcadia and sonnet cycle Astrophel and Stella (6) |
| AIKEN | Author of The Wolves of Willoughby Chase and Midnight is a Place who wrote sequels to novels by Jane Austen (5) |
| DISPENSER | I'd rejected Elizabethan poet and chemist (9) |
| THEWINTERSTALE | Play by William Shakespeare whose main plot is taken from Robert Greene's pastoral romance Pandosto |
| ARCADIA | Pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney |
| POUSSIN | French classical artist who painted A Dance to the Music of Time, the Venetian-inspired The Nurture of Bacchus, the pastoral Et in Arcadia ego and The Four Seasons series (7) |
| JOHNDENHAM | Anglo-Irish poet and courtier buried in Westminster Abbey whose works include The Sophy and Cooper's Hill |
| SPENSER | Edmund -; Elizabethan poet who wrote The Shephearde's Calendar and The Faerie Queene (7) |
| TASSO | Poet who wrote the epic Gerusalemme liberate in ottava rima and the pastoral idyll Aminta (5) |
| WYATT | Sir Thomas ___. English poet and courtier. Twice imprisoned on being Anne Boleyn's love and for suspected treason (5) |
| TORQUATOTASSO | Sixteenth century Italian poet who wrote Jerusalem Delivered and the pastoral idyll Aminta (8,5) |
| STOPPARD | Tom ---, playwright whose works include Arcadia and Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead (8) |
| UTOPIAS | Imaginary ideal lands, such as Arcadia and Cockaigne (7) |
| PENSHURSTPLACE | Historic house in Kent once home to the Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| OKRA | Ben -; Booker Prize-winning poet and novelist who wrote The Famished Road and In Arcadia (4) |
| HELENA | In 1.1, Hermia encounters another woman. Hermia says: "Take comfort: he no more shall see my face: Lysander and myself will fly this place." Who is Hermia talking to? |
| DIOCESE | A district under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian church (7) |
| DIOCESES | Districts under the pastoral care of a bishop in the Christian church (8) |
| RALEIGH | Famed English writer, explorer and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter ... |
