| BROCKEN | Highest peak in Germany's Harz, ascended twice by Coleridge and Wordsworth, in order to observe the phenomenal spectre or glory for which said summit is most known (7) |
| OCEANAUT | One living under the sea for a period in order to observe and explore (8) |
| PRIMROSES | Cited in works by Shakespeare, Coleridge and Wordsworth, pale yellow blooms related to cowslips, polyanthus and auricula; floral symbols of Devon (9) |
| SOUTHEY | Robert -; one of the three main Lake Poets, along with his friends Coleridge and Wordsworth (7) |
| LYRICAL | --- Ballads, seminal Coleridge and Wordsworth collection |
| CUMBRIA | A county described by William Wordsworth in his poems and Guide to the Lakes; location of John Ruskin's former home Brantwood on the shore of Coniston Water (7) |
| OCTAGON | Eight-sided shape of the room designed by Christopher Wren in the Royal Observatory (Flamsteed House) to observe the night sky (7) |
| GALILEO | Forename of the discoverer of the isochronism of a pendulum who improved upon the design of the refracting telescope to observe the four largest moons of Jupiter (7) |
| SALZGITTER | Industrial city in Lower Saxony in the foothills of the Harz Mountains (10) |
| ANHALT | Historical German county and duchy located between the Harz Mountains and the river Elbe |
| LAKEPOETS | What collective name is given to the poets Coleridge, Southey and Wordsworth? (4,5) |
| KEAN | Described by Coleridge as having the power to reveal Shakespeare by "flashes of lightning", whose 18 |
| WALPURGIS | Eve of St Walpurga's Day, April 30, when witches are said to meet in the Harz Mountains, ......... Night (9) |
| TRAMPOLINE | Start to observe the queue behind the floozie, it's where the bouncer performs (10) |
| LAKES | Watery bodies forming part of the landscape of a region associated with Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey (5) |
| DITYATIN | Who, in the 1980 Moscow Games, became the first to win eight medals, the most in a single edition, which has since been equalled twice by Michael Phelps? (8) |
| DOVECOTTAGE | The home of William and Dorothy Wordsworth in Grasmere (47) |
| WATCHMAKER | He'll provide you with the time to observe the manufacturer (10) |
| LESSEE | Get Leslie to observe the one who is granted the lease (6) |
| MARINER | The Rime of the Ancient ___, famous poem by Coleridge (7) |
