| GERANIUMS | Hardy flowers (9) |
| FRESHROSEBRANCH | Just-picked, hardy flower stem? |
| RESILIENT | Hardy novel Neil tries (9) |
| HAMADRYAD | Hardy novel about a crazed nymph (9) |
| EVERGREEN | Hardy one. Laurel, for example. (9) |
| RAINSFORD | Plays Ethan Hardy in Casualty, George --------- (9) |
| GREENWOOD | Under the ___ Tree, Thomas Hardy novel (9) |
| TESTINESS | Hardy character tackles points displaying irritation (9) |
| TIREDNESS | Hardy girl has a revolutionary name for fatigue (9) |
| TASTELESS | Hardy girl sheltering allows answer turning vulgar (9) |
| BRIDEHEAD | Cousin and lover of Jude Fawley in the Thomas Hardy novel Jude The Obscure (3,9) |
| SWALEDALE | Breed of small hardy sheep from Yorkshire with coarse coats (9) |
| MAPPERTON | Home to the Earl and Countess of Sandwich in Hardy country that was used as a location for the 2015 film Far from the Madding Crowd (9) |
| YEOBRIGHT | Clym, character in the Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (9) |
| LAODICEAN | Lukewarm and indifferent in religious matters -as in a title of a Thomas Hardy novel (9) |
| ELAEAGNUS | Valuable, hardy, flowering shrub with handsome, leathery leaves (9) |
| THREESOME | Company, they say, with problem, so it's said: Freeman Hardy Willis, say (9) |
| IRONSIDES | Pressing for the teams to be as hardy as Cromwell's men? (9) |
| DYSTROPHY | Suffering Syd in France very hardy in extremity with disease (9) |
| DESPERATE | 1871 novel by Thomas Hardy featuring the character Edward Springrove (9,8) |
