| JUDE | Hardy's ' the Obscure' |
| CLYMYEOBRIGHT | 'The native' in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (4,9) |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| NATIVE | Hardy's 'The Return of the ___' |
| EUSTACIA | ___ Vye, character in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (8) |
| 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) |
| MAYOR | Hardy's 'The -- of Casterbridge' |
| PIANO | Prop in Laurel and Hardy's 'The Music Box' |
| DONALDFARFRAE | Rival of Michael Henchard in Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (6,7) |
| DERRIMAN | Festus, character in Hardy's The Trumpet Major (8) |
| SUE | And 11 Cousin and lover of Jude Fawley in the Thomas Hardy novel Jude The Obscure (3,9) |
| BRIDEHEAD | Cousin and lover of Jude Fawley in the Thomas Hardy novel Jude The Obscure (3,9) |
| DONN | Arabella, character in the Thomas Hardy novel Jude the Obscure (4) |
| THOMASHARDY | British novelist and poet whose works include Far from the Madding Crowd and Jude the Obscure (6,5) |
| ETHE | The answer is easily found in Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy (4) |
| THOMAS | Acclaimed English poet and author who penned The Mayor of Casterbridge and Jude the Obscure (6, 5) |
| ENO | Musician who started the Obscure Records label |
| THEINVISIBLEMAN | Wells sequel to "Jude the Obscure"? |
| STONEMASON | Title character's trade in "Jude the Obscure" |
