| SCOTT | Sir Walter -; author who wrote the Waverley novels including The Antiquary, Rob Roy, The Bride of Lammermoor and Kenilworth (5) |
| EDIE | Beggar in Sir Walter Scott's "The Antiquary" |
| OCHILTREE | Licensed beggar in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary (9) |
| EDGAR | Principal character in Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor; or, the dramatist who adapted Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to stage for the RSC (5) |
| IVANHOE | First of the Waverley novels to be set entirely in England |
| SIRWALTERSCOTT | Scottish author of the 'Waverley' historical novels (3,6,5) |
| ROB | Forty years before Liam Neeson, Richard Todd played the lead role in ... Roy, The Highland Rogue |
| ASHTON | Lucy ___, title character in Sir Walter Scott's "The Bride of Lammermoor" |
| SUSANNA | The bride of Figaro in 'The Marriage of Figaro' (7) |
| SHE | "___ hate me. Like others" (line from the Monster in "The Bride of Frankenstein") |
| BAGEHOT | Walter, author of 1867's The English Constitution (7) |
| DELA | Walter, author of 1946 poem The Traveller (2,2) |
| MARE | Walter, author of 1946 poem The Traveller (4) |
| ABBOT | In Scott’s Waverley novels, The ____ follows The Monastery |
| RITSON | William ___ - \\fictorian railway contractor who built Shankend Viaduct and Whitrope Tunnel on the Waverley route (6) |
| ACUFF | Roy, the "King of Country Music" |
| STOW | Antiquary whose Survey of London during Elizabeth I's reign charts life in the capital from its castles and towers to the butchers and bakers prior to the Plague and the Great Fire (4) |
| MAE | Clarke who played the bride of Frankenstein |
| MANAGUA | Capital and largest city of Nicaragua, nicknamed 'The Bride of Xolotlan' (7) |
| ELSA | Lanchester of "The Bride of Frankenstein" |
