| LITTLEIRONIES | Life's ___ 1894 collection of stories by Thomas Hardy which touches upon both rural life and the life of the bourgeois: 2 wds. |
| BOOK | The Jungle ___ 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring anthropomorphic animals |
| LITTLEHERR | 1898 collection of stories by Thomas Mann (6,4,10) |
| FRIEDEMANN | 1898 collection of stories by Thomas Mann (6,4,10) |
| THEJUNGLEBOOK | 1894 collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling featuring the 'man cub' Mowgli (3,6,4) |
| TWO | ___ on a Tower 1882 novel by Thomas Hardy which is a love story of Lady Constastine and Swithin St. Cleeve |
| MADDINGCROWD | Far from the ___ 1874 novel by Thomas Hardy which is about the farming community in Victorian England: 2 wds. |
| ABUTS | Touches upon |
| ALLUDES | Touches upon every bit used in some way (7) |
| DORSET | Containing Durdle Door, Corfe Castle, Lulworth Cove and Sherborne Abbey, birth county of Thomas Hardy which inspired his fictional land Wessex (6) |
| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| MILLET | French painter noted for his scenes of rural life and peasantry including The Sower, The Potato Harvest, The Gleaners and Calling Home the Cows (6) |
| CLARE | Known as the Peasant Poet, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery and The Shepherds Calendar who spent his last 26 years in an asylum (5) |
| HOMER | Watercolourist noted for scenes of farm/rural life and later seascapes including On the Beach, A Basket of Clams, Clear Sailing and Crab Fishing (5) |
| MOTHER | ___ Goose Tales; collection of stories by Charles Perrault including Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots and Cinderella (6) |
| NIB | The point of the pen which touches the writing surface |
| JUNGLEBOOK | The ___, 1894 volume of stories by Rudyard Kipling (6,4) |
| PRITCHETT | Author born above a toyshop who wrote the story collection You Make Your Own Life and the memoirs A Cab at the Door and Midnight Oil (9) |
| BYATT | A S ___, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden (5) |
| PAXMAN | University Challenge host who wrote Fish, Fishing and the Meaning of Life and The English (6) |
