| RALEIGH | Sir Walter -, explorer and courtier |
| SIDNEY | Elizabethan poet and courtier born at Penshurst Place who wrote the pastoral romance Arcadia and sonnet cycle Astrophel and Stella (6) |
| DRAKE | Sir Francis -, navigator and courtier to Elizabeth I (5) |
| JOHNDENHAM | Anglo-Irish poet and courtier buried in Westminster Abbey whose works include The Sophy and Cooper's Hill |
| TASSO | 16th-century Italian poet and courtier described in a play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (5) |
| DRYBURGH | Borders abbey where Sir Walter Scott and Douglas Haig are buried (8) |
| WOODSTOCK | 1826 Sir Walter Scott novel subtitled or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one (9) |
| IVANHOE | Title, and main character, of a novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in 12th Century England (7) |
| TRANGAM | Word, revived by Sir Walter Scott and similar to a puzzle of geometric shapes, for a bauble, gewgaw, knick-knack or showy worthless gimcrack (7) |
| FAIRMAID | ___ ___ Of Perth, novel by Sir Walter Scott (4,4) |
| MAID | The Fair ___ of Perth, Sir Walter Scott novel (4) |
| SCOTT | Sir Walter (5) |
| OLDMORTALITY | Novel by Sir Walter Scott (3,9) |
| THETALISMAN | 1825 novel by Sir Walter Scott (3,8) |
| GREATSCOTT | Wow: the famous Sir Walter (5,5) |
| LOCHINVAR | Hero of Sir Walter Scott |
| QUENTIN | Novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1823 (7) |
| DURWARD | Novel by Sir Walter Scott published in 1823 (7) |
| TANGLE | Oarweed; or, a knotted mass, such as a web of lies according to Sir Walter Scott's Marmion (6) |
| OFPERTH | The -, 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott (4,4,2,5) |
