| WORDSWORTH | Poet who lived at Dove Cottage in Grasmere with his sister Dorothy for eight years where he wrote many of his best-known works (10) |
| GRASMERE | Cumbrian village where William Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy for some 14 years (8) |
| AUGUSTWILSON | Black American playwright who wrote Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: 2 wds. |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| IPSWICH | Port town in Suffolk, home to Thomas Gainsborough for some 15 years, where he painted subjects from butterfly chases and local gentry to parks, ponds, streams and weirs (7) |
| YALTA | In which resort city on the Black Sea is the writer's museum, White Dacha, the once home of Anton Chekhov where he wrote many of his greatest works? (5) |
| INDEPENDENCEDAY | Time of the year where one is free to take liberty with type of trader (12,3) |
| MOTH | Period in a year where there's no end of brown insect (4) |
| GREYAREA | Simmering rage about crazy year where nothing's definite (4,4) |
| HANSEL | Brother in Grimm's Fairy Tales who finds a gingerbread house in the woods with his sister (6) |
| OSIRIS | God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!) |
| RYDAL | Village in the Lake District, location of William Wordsworth's family home after Dove Cottage, where Dora's Field was planted and he wrote a final version of "Daffodils" (5) |
| COLERIDGE | An English poet who lived for a while in Nether Stowey in Somerset (9) |
| LAMB | What was the surname of Charles, the English essayist who, with his sister Mary, wrote Tales from Shakespeare? (4) |
| HORACE | Roman lyric poet who lived during the time of Augustus, famous for his Odes (6) |
| NUNN | Trevor -; artistic director of the RSC from 1968-86, a role he shared with Terry Hands for eight years (4) |
| WOOLF | Bloomsbury Group author who lived at Monk's House in Sussex where she wrote Mrs Dalloway and other novels in a writing lodge at the bottom of the garden (5) |
| DARWIN | Naturalist who lived at Down House from 1842 where he studied orchids and summarised his theories of natural selection in his volume On the Origin of Species (6) |
| DONNYOSMOND | "Go Away Little Girl" singer who co-hosted a talk show with his sister from 1998-2000 |
| DOVECOTTAGE | Home in Grasmere to William and Dorothy Wordsworth |
