| IDYLL | Scene of rural simplicity |
| 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) |
| SMOCKING | Embroidery technique in the form of a series of honeycomb stitches, traditionally used for the cuffs, bodices or yokes of rural tunics or girls' dresses (8) |
| OREGANO | Meaning "joy of the mountains" and related to marjoram, a fragrant herb carpeting parts of the landscape of rural Greece, used to flavour horiatiki with tomatoes, olives and feta (7) |
| ARCADIA | Any place of rural peace and simplicity |
| 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) |
| HAMLET | Settlement smaller than a village, often consisting of a cluster of rural cottages around a central farm (6) |
| BOCAGE | Type of landscape in parts of rural France including Normandy characterised by pasture divided by hedgerows; or, woodland scenery represented in porcelain figurines (6) |
| FAUN | Class of rural deity in Roman mythology represented as a man with the ears, horns, tail and hind legs of a goat (4) |
| 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) |
| HEDGES | Botanical boundaries, fences or rows forming the characteristic chequered "patchwork quilt" of the English countryside or the bocage of rural France (6) |
| SIDECAR | A "jaunting" pony-and-trap of rural Ireland; a one-wheeled passenger pod attached to a motorcycle; or, a classic cocktail of cognac and Cointreau/curacao with citrus juice (7) |
| VILLAGES | From "country houses, farmsteads", word for large hamlets of rural abodes; or, the communities of said thorps (8) |
| RFD | "___ Country! Mailboxes and Post Offices of Rural America" |
| AGR | Dept. in charge of rural development |
| RUSTIC | Characteristic of rural life (6) |
| PEASANT | Member of rural underclass (7) |
| AGRARIAN | Of rural matters (8) |
| PASTORAL | Of rural life, scenery, etc. (8) |
| COBBETT | William ___, author of Rural Rides (1830) (7) |
