| HEANEY | Poet who worked with Ted Hughes and Barrie Cooke and translated from Middle English "The Names of the Hare" (6) |
| OPERA | Worked with Ted in entertainment (5) |
| REID | Poet who edited Selected Letters of Ted Hughes and wrote books or collections including A Scattering, The Song of Lunch and Old Toffer's Book of Consequential Dogs (4) |
| SCOTS | Burns and Barrie |
| NANAS | Zola courtesan and Barrie nurse |
| NEWMARKET | Ontario town between Toronto and Barrie |
| SPHERES | Ancient idea that saw the movement of the planets in the heavens as a kind of dance, the music of th |
| RIDGE | The Blue ___ Mountains Of Virginia, location sung about in the Laurel and Hardy song The Trail Of Th |
| NASHE | Thomas ___, author of the first picaresque novel in English, The Unfortunate Traveller, or the Life of Jack Wilton |
| LARKIN | Poet who worked as a librarian at the University of Hull for many years |
| BALTO | In 1925 he served as the lead sled dog for a life-saving medical delivery from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, where people were dying of diphtheria. He and his fellow dogs navigated the last stretch of th |
| SOLOMON | Some of the most savage fighting in the Pacific in WWII occurred over the British protectorate of th |
| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| SWORDIN | Merlin the magician features in the Disney animation of TH White's story, The ... The Stone (5,2) |
| DOUAY | English version of the Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate in the early 17th century (5) |
| FLORIO | Italian tutor of the "Nine Days' Queen", whose lexicographer son produced A Worlde of Wordes and translated Montaigne's essays (6) |
| ANKA | Paul who sang with Sam Cooke and Neil Sedaka on the 1963 album "3 Great Guys" |
| PANINI | From the Italian word (by way of Latin) meaning, basically, "bread." In English, the word describes a type of grilled sandwich. Its first known usage was in 1955. |
| PEOPLEISRAEL | "Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of th |
| ROBERTSON | Leader of the US Christian Coalition which has become increasingly influential in the politics of th |
