| AMYASLEIGH | Hero of the 1855 Charles Kingsley novel Westward Ho! (5,5) |
| LEIGH | Hero of the Charles Kingsley novel Westward Ho! (5,5) |
| AMYAS | Hero of the Charles Kingsley novel Westward Ho! (5,5) |
| WESTWARDHO | 1855 Charles Kingsley novel (8,2) |
| CHARLES | and 12ac, Author of novels Westward Ho! and Hypatia |
| KINGSLEY | see 11ac, Author of novels Westward Ho! and Hypatia |
| WHITMAN | Poet who published the 1855 collection Leaves of Grass |
| WARDEN | 'The ---', 1855 novel by Anthony Trollope (6) |
| BADEGG | What term for a corrupt person originated in the 1855 novel Captain Priest, by Samuel A Hammett? (3,3) |
| ALTONLOCKE | 1850 Charles Kingsley novel about the Chartist movement (5,5) |
| HYPATIA | Charles Kingsley novel set in 5th-century Alexandria (7) |
| CHARLESKINGSLEY | English author of novels including Westward Ho! (1855) |
| DEVON | County whose seaside village Westward Ho! is the only place in the UK to contain an exclamation mark or "shriek" in its name (5) |
| HOW | The way "Westward Ho!" got back to front? (3) |
| NORTHAM | Rothman in trouble near Westward Ho! (7) |
| OCHIDORE | Crab primarily seen in Westward Ho! (I make note) |
| OWLS | All around the outskirts of Westward Ho, both large and small birds of prey can be spotted (4) |
| OUTFLOW | We had a large leak in the loft in our place on the outskirts of Westward Ho -- we've had three plumbers come to try to fix it (7) |
| TRAT | Resto in Westward Ho! |
| ONWARDS | My son, a doctor who lives near the centre of Westward Ho, worked hard to get ahead (7) |
