| SANCHOPANZA | Manservant of Don Quixote in a 17th Century novel by Miguel de Cervantes (6,5) |
| DULCINEA | Mistress of Don Quixote in a 17th-century novel by Miguel de Cervantes (8) |
| ROSINANTE | Horse of Don Quixote in a story by Cervantes (9) |
| DONQUIXOTE | 'Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha' in a novel by Miguel de Cervantes |
| QUIXOTE | Don -; novel by Miguel de Cervantes, voted the greatest book of all time by the Nobel Institute (7) |
| ROCINANTE | Don Quixote's horse in the novel by Miguel de Cervantes |
| NOVEL | Form of literature originating from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (5) |
| CERVANTES | Miguel de _, author of the epic 17th-century novel Don Quixote (9) |
| BREAD | What, in a 17th Century proverb, is said to be the staff of life? (5) |
| SANCHO | ___ Panza, fictional character in Don Miguel de Cervantes' novel Don Quixote (6) |
| TOMTHUMB | Who is the tiny hero in a 17th Century nursery rhyme? (3,5) |
| LLOYDS | Insurance and re-insurance body which started in a 17th-century coffee house |
| HIDALGO | Lower rank of the Spanish nobility, famously borne by the title character of Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605-15) |
| LAMANCHA | Plateau region of central Spain in which Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote 1605-15 |
| TRISTRAM | --- Shandy, protagonist of a nine-volume 18th Century novel by Laurence Sterne (8) |
| ADO | It was about nothing, in a 17th-century play |
| TULIP | Flower in a 17th-century Dutch economic bubble |
| SHAKESPEAREANSONNET | Actor Williams found in a 17th-century poem? |
| LOTHARIO | Anselmo's seductive friend in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (8) |
| MANOFLAMANCHA | Broadway musical based on the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote: 4 wds. |
