| EDMUND | First name of Elizabethan poet Spenser (6) |
| PENSHURSTPLACE | Historic house in Kent, birthplace of Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney (9,5) |
| STRONG | Author, gardener, historian, former director of the V&A and of the National Portrait Gallery, scholar of Elizabethan miniatures and tricyclist, Sir Roy (6) |
| DOCTOR | The Tragical History of the Life and Death of -, Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe (6,7) |
| SIDNEY | Elizabethan poet and courtier born at Penshurst Place who wrote the pastoral romance Arcadia and sonnet cycle Astrophel and Stella (6) |
| IRENA | Ireland, to 16th-century Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser |
| EDMUNDSPENSER | Elizabethan poet (6,7) |
| FAUSTUS | The Tragical History of the Life and Death of -, Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe (6,7) |
| TUDORESQUE | Of an imitation of Elizabethan style (10) |
| SLYLY | Society dramatist of Elizabethan times in the manner of Fox |
| DRAKE | Dissolute man of fashion pursuing daughter of Elizabethan explorer (5) |
| SPENSER | Edmund _; Elizabethan poet (7) |
| CAMPION | Small flower; Thomas -, Elizabethan poet |
| DISPENSER | I'd rejected Elizabethan poet and chemist (9) |
| VERE | Elizabethan poet Edward de ___ |
| MORES | Customs publicised by namesakes of the St. Thomas of Elizabethan times (5) |
| LUTE | Instrument of Elizabethan ballads |
| MERRYENGLAND | Idealised notion of Elizabethan times |
| ANVIL | Iron block, a feature of Elizabethan village |
| LYLY | Euphuism was the distinctive style of Elizabethan writer and playwright John ____ |
