| EDWARDS | Sporting artist who provided illustrations for editions of Country Life, Black Beauty and Lorna Doone (7) |
| BOOKSHOP | A dealer in dictionaries, emporium for editions, haven for hardbacks, retailer of reads, store for stories or other bibliopolic paradise for the purchase and perusal of bound paper or pen-and-ink publ |
| MUNNINGS | Equestrian/sporting artist who painted HRH The Prince of Wales on Forest Witch, Winter Landscape, When the wind blows cold and December Morning, Cornwall (8) |
| OMNIBUS | Wrestling over securing writer for edition of book |
| ORLANDO | Mr Bloom and Lorna arranged party |
| TENNIEL | He was a popular artist of his day who did cartoons for Punch magazine and illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. |
| BOUCHER | French artist in the Rococo style whose paintings include Charms of Country Life, A Summer Pastoral, The Rising of the Sun, The Billet-Doux, The Dovecote and several portraits of Madame de Pompadour ( |
| EVANS | Author of Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay and other chronicles of country life, whose daughter, Susan, married artist David Gentleman (5) |
| LUISROYO | Spanish fantasy artist best known for his illustrations for magazines such as Heavy Metal and George R R Martin's 2014 novelette The Ice Dragon (4,4) |
| ALLINGHAM | Celebrated Victorian painter whose rustic rural scenes and illustrations for Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd gained her fame and honour as the first woman to be admitted as a full member of the Roy |
| HAT | Haddon Sundblom's illustrations for Coke ads in the 30s cemented our image of Santa Claus in red and |
| ROCKWELL | Norman ........, US artist known for his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post (8) |
| BEWICK | Noted for his often humorous tailpiece vignettes of country life in A History of British Birds, an English wood engraver whose apprentice, Ebenezer Landells, co-founded Punch, or The London Charivari |
| RURAL | Republican fellow in pursuit of game is characteristic of country life (5) |
| BROWNE | Hablot Knight ___, English painter noted for his illustrations for Dickens' novels under the pseudonym Phiz |
| TOADSTOOLS | Red-and-white spotted fly agarics depicted in fairy tale illustrations, for example (10) |
| RENDELL | Author of the Inspector Wexford mysteries including From Doon with Death and An Unkindness of Ravens (7) |
| BRAE | The ____s of bonnie Doon are one of its fresh and fair features in a Robert Burns song |
| IDYLLS | Bucolics or vignettes of country life such as those written by Theocritus including The Two Herdsmen, The Harvest Festival and The Beloved (6) |
| CLARE | Poet whose collection The Rural Muse illuminates aspects of country life including oak trees, fairy rings, a nightingale's nest, forest flowers and a shepherd's hut (5) |
