| UNDY | On this day in the middle of June, we lost one of our leading authors -- he's buried in a place near Caldicot (4) |
| IDEFORD | My father died with nothing - he's buried in a village near Newton Abbot (7) |
| MOTION | Proposal from one of our leading poets (6) |
| EVENTO | ___ this day (in the present time) |
| EWER | In June, we returned vase |
| ONLEAVE | This leading author's novel is set in the West of England -- it was written whilst he was away having a break (2,5) |
| ARUBA | Cause friction between pair of leading authors from this island? |
| AVERSION | Strong dislike for leading author's adaptation |
| IGUANODON | The ____s in Crystal Palace Park (pictured) were made with large moulds. On this day in 1853, a dinner was held inside one of them. |
| KONIGSBERG | On this day in 1757, Elizabeth I of Russia issued a ukase incorporating the Prussian city of ____ into Russia |
| HALLOWED | Blessed with a word of greeting one day in the middle of the week (8) |
| TREBETHERICK | The place next to the Boar's Head in Trerice was broken into by four blokes who live in a place near Polzeath (12) |
| WASHAWAY | Why was this leading artist buried in Avonmouth, when he lived in a place near Bodmin? (8) |
| SIMONMAYO | On This Day In History was a regular feature of this presenter's BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show |
| THOMASEDISON | On this day in 1879, ____ made the first public use of incandescent lighting, in Menlo Park, New Jersey |
| UPON | On a flower in the middle of June (4) |
| IDES | Day in the middle of a month in the Roman calendar (4) |
| HOLDITCH | My wayward second cousin had a child in the mid-eighties, whilst living in a place near Hewood (8) |
| EQUINOX | Horsey type with no tail and a steer have a special day in the middle of September (or March) (7) |
| AUSSIE | My sister only briefly lived with her second husband, in a place near Exmouth -- unfortunately he was someone from the other side of the world (6) |
