| PASTORALE | Minister bitter about composition of rural life (9) |
| POEM | Mope about composition (4) |
| ESSAYETTES | Head of Science perhaps has Group T rebelling about compositions (10) |
| JEFFERIES | Naturalist noted for his depiction of rural life in works including Bevis, The Open Air and Tarka the Otter author Henry Williamson's favourite book The Story of My Heart (9) |
| PASTORALS | Works of art/literature portraying the rural life of shepherds (9) |
| RUSTICATE | To lead rural life (9) |
| OUTFITTER | Shop or person selling kit/clothing for countryside sports or rural life (9) |
| 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) |
| RUSTIC | Characteristic of rural life |
| PASTORAL | Of rural life, scenery, etc. (8) |
| BUCOLIC | Typical of rural life |
| BARNES | Clergyman who wrote Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (6) |
| SUBTOPIA | Rambling to a pub is what gives townies a taste of rural life |
| 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) |
| IDYLL | Greek-derived word that, in essence, represents an idealised "little picture" of rural life, whether in art, music, poetry or reality (5) |
| LITTLEIRONIES | Life's ___ 1894 collection of stories by Thomas Hardy which touches upon both rural life and the life of the bourgeois: 2 wds. |
| THOMPSON | Author of Lark Rise to Candleford, a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels based on rural life in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper Hill (8) |
| SHAW | Author of a number of novels based on rural life including The New Rector, The Village Show and Country Lovers (4) |
| DIARY | The Country - of an Edwardian Lady; book of watercolour illustrations and handwritten notes by Edith Holden chronicling her rural life (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) |
