| DORSET | Main county reflected in Thomas Hardy's Wessex; site of a Neolithic cursus spanning part of the chalk downlands of Cranborne Chase (6) |
| WINGSPAN | Drawing spanning part of the width (8) |
| AVEBURY | Wiltshire site of a neolithic henge monument |
| MEATUS | Movement; cursus, gestus |
| FARFROM | - - the Madding Crowd; Thomas Hardy's Wessex novel about the heroine Bathsheba Everdene (3,4) |
| PIKESTONES | The remains of a Neolithic burial cairn, located on Anglezarke moor in Lancashire |
| UNDERTHEGREENWOODTREE | The first of Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels |
| COWARDLY | Yellow arch spanning part of hospital on left (8) |
| CLYMYEOBRIGHT | 'The native' in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (4,9) |
| BATHSHEBA | Forename of a character in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd (9) |
| ANGELCLARE | Husband of Tess in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| CLYM | ___ Yeobright, titular character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native (1878) (4) |
| GOBI | Desert spanning parts of China and Mongolia, threequarters of which is found in a goji berry! (4) |
| EUSTACIA | ___ Vye, character in Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (8) |
| SUEBRIDEHEAD | Love interest of Jude Fawley in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure |
| WESSEX | Anglo-Saxon kingdom whose name was revived in Thomas Hardy's series of novels beginning with Under the Greenwood Tree (6) |
| BACTRIA | Ancient region spanning parts of modem Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, probably subdued in the sixth century BC by Persian king Cyrus the Great (7) |
| ANTLER | One of a deer's horns with surroyals forming part of its "crown", once used as a neolithic tool (6) |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (7) |
| EVERDENE | Bathsheba, character in Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd (8) |
