| ROHAN | J.R.R. Tolkien... Grassy realm of Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings |
| SMAUG | Dragon of Middle-earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit (5) |
| JRRTOLKIEN | He first wrote of Middle-earth in 1917 |
| FALL | The ___ of Gondolin one of the original Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien which is about a secret city of elves in the First Age of Middle-earth |
| CHARLESLYELL | In 1830-33, this geologist publishes Principles of Geology, followed in 1838 by Elements of Geology, in which he demonstrates that the processes that changed the earth in the past are continuing. What |
| SHIRE | The -, region of Tolkien's Middle Earth in which Bilbo and Frodo Baggins live (5) |
| LAIKA | He was a stray dog picked off the streets of Moscow and the first animal to orbit the Earth in the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957. |
| ELVISH | A group of languages of Middle-earth created by fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien (6) |
| NORTH | Walruses can be found in the far ___ of the earth in the Arctic |
| APOGEE | In astronomy, the point furthest from Earth in the path of a body orbiting the planet (6) |
| PERIGEE | Closest point to the Earth in the orbit of the moon or an artificial satellite (7) |
| GREEK | Nerd writes about Middle Earth in classic style (5) |
| TOLKIEN | J. R. R. ___, creator of Middle Earth |
| HOBBIT | Tolkien's inhabitant of the lands of Middle-earth (6) |
| PTOLEMAIC | Person setting up in coalpit, working with earth in the centre? (9) |
| PICKMEUP | It will do you good putting bits of muddy earth in the small truck |
| ASTEROID | It threatened the Earth in the movie "Armageddon" |
| GEOCENTRIC | Get cornice fixed, putting earth in the middle (10) |
| ISLET | Speck of earth in the ocean |
| TOPSOIL | Upper layer of earth in the garden (7) |
