| ICHABODCRANE | Schoolmaster in 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving (7,5) |
| ICHABOD | Protagonist of the 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by US author Washington Irving (7,5) |
| CRANE | Protagonist of the 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by US author Washington Irving (7,5) |
| IRVING | Author whose story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent includes Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (6) |
| WASHINGTON | And 3 Down US author of the story collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon (10,6) |
| WASHINGTONIRVING | As Geoffrey Crayon, ____ wrote a Sketch Book with stories including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| HEADLESS | The ____ horseman is a mythical archetype reused in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| SKETCH | The ___ of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, collection of essays by Washington Irving first published in 1819 |
| BOOK | The - of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent, collection of essays by Washington Irving first published in 1819 (6,4) |
| REEVE | Profession of Oswald, the titular narrator of the third of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (5) |
| WIFE | One of the best-known of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, The _ Of Bath's Tale (4) |
| SKETCHBOOK | The - - of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent; collection of essays and stories by Washington Irving (10) |
| THEATRE | Word, first mentioned in English in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, for a playhouse; or, dramaturgy (7) |
| PARDONER | Narrator of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (c. 1400), between the Physician and the Shipman (8) |
| TINTAGEL | Cornish village associated with King Arthur's early life in the writings of Geoffrey of Monmouth and Alfred, Lord Tennyson (8) |
| GUNPOWDER | Ichabod Crane's horse in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| BROM | ___ Bones of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" |
| KATRINA | "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" maiden |
| OSWALD | Titular reeve who narrated the third of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387-1400) |
| RODENTS | They are seen to gnaw or are about to produce hollows from the blows (7) |
