| THEPIT | Section for peasants in Shakespeare's theatre |
| PHILISTINE | Welcome table found in wood for peasant (10) |
| RAIYAT | Chopped Indian dish indeed served up inside for peasant |
| OSTADE | Dutch artist whose works include Peasants in a Tavern, An Alchemist, The Painter in His Workshop and A Cobbler (6) |
| TENIERS | Noted for his Brouwer-like depictions of peasants in taverns, court painter to Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, who was also the custodian of said archduke's art gallery (7) |
| GLOBE | Shakespeare's theatre in the round? (5) |
| MILLET | One who painted peasants in the grass (6) |
| ARTEL | An association of craftsmen, peasants in the then USSR |
| FELLAHIN | Peasants in Arabic-speaking countries (8) |
| DORITO | "We take it for granted today, but a single ___ has more extreme nacho flavor than a peasant in the 1400s would get in his whole lifetime" (viral tweet) |
| YOKEL | Peasant in bondage, ending in thrall |
| KULAK | Member of the class of peasants in Russia after 1906 who became proprietors of their own farms (5) |
| SERF | Peasant in a feudal society (4) |
| SWATHE | She wraps revolting peasant in bandage |
| COTTAR | Highland peasant in bed with rodent climbing |
| CLODHOPPER | Peasant in helicopter hovering around Israeli city (10) |
| GISELLE | Title peasant in an 1841 ballet |
| RYOT | Indian peasant in ruins of Troy (4) |
| TRAVELTHEGLOBE | Go round the world, making time to see French composer at Shakespeare's theatre (6,3,5) |
| ZORBATHEGREEK | 1964 comedy drama film starring U.S. actor Anthony Quinn as a peasant in Crete (5,3,5) |