| BOUCHER | Painter whose works include Charms of Country Life and Morning Coffee (7) |
| 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) |
| EDWARDS | Sporting artist who painted hunting and racing scenes, compiled Seen from the Saddle and provided illustrations for editions of Country Life, Black Beauty and Lorna Doone (7) |
| MOJITOS | The charms of West Africa must include Italian cocktails (7) |
| IPOMOEA | Genus of the "heavenly blue", moonflower and morning glory (7) |
| RESISTS | Ignores the charms of the dancing sisters (7) |
| BUMPKIN | Characheristic of country life or countryside; rustic (7) |
| MASCOTS | Lucky charms of Mother Countrymen (7) |
| BUCOLIC | Of country life, rustic (7) |
| ELEVENS | Teams' morning coffee break (7) |
| EVANS | Author of Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay and other chronicles of country life, whose daughter, Susan, married artist David Gentleman (5) |
| OBI | One of the charms of the West Indies |
| CLARE | Poet whose collection The Rural Muse illuminates aspects of country life including oak trees, fairy rings, a nightingale's nest, forest flowers and a shepherd's hut (5) |
| BEWICK | Noted for his often humorous tailpiece vignettes of country life in A History of British Birds, an English wood engraver whose apprentice, Ebenezer Landells, co-founded Punch, or The London Charivari |
| RURAL | Republican fellow in pursuit of game is characteristic of country life (5) |
| BREWS | Tea, coffee, and Morning |
| OPES | "And Morning ___ with haste her lids" (line from Emerson's "The Problem") |
| VENUS | Places for events ejecting Echo and Morning Star? (5) |
| MURPHY | Actress and Morning Live co-host, Sheree _ (6) |
| KIMBERLEY | Ms Walsh, singer and Morning Live co-presenter (9) |
