| FARMER | Spouse hunt (The ------ Wants a Wife) |
| GRUZLEWSKI | The Farmer Wants a Wife host, Natalie ... (10) |
| RURAL | "The two divinest things this world has got / A lovely woman in a ____ spot!" (Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini) |
| RUBENS | Painter of princes, hunts, battles, nudes, mythological and religious scenes - his works include Venus and Adonis, The Tiger Hunt, The Great Last Judgement and The Triumph of Henry IV (6) |
| FINGERTIP | Pointer to "hunt the thimble" location in the end? |
| YOB | He created the adventure video game "Hunt the Wumpus" |
| MINISTER | Deal with the wants of one in ecclesiastical place at York (8) |
| GETAJOB | Words after "She throws the want ads right my way and never fails to say," in a 1958 #1 hit |
| ANAIL | 'For the want of ___...' |
| OFA | Todd Rundgren "The Want ___ Nail" |
| RESOLD | Listed in the want ads, perhaps |
| EEO | Abbr. in the want ads |
| GOWITHOUT | Suffer the want of sesame (2,7) |
| NEED | ... for the want of it... (4) |
| SLEIGHBELL | Hunt the poet for Beatles' first sellout; it makes a cheerful jingle (6,4) |
| EVANS | Lee ___, now retired comedian who starred in the films Mouse Hunt, The Fifth Element and There's Som |
| CLEANBOOT | Bloodhounds hunt the '___ ___' when following a human scent trail - to Cob Lane, perhaps (5,4) |
| RALEIGH | Hunt the poet, led by artist, navigator and author |
| SLEIGHT | Hunt the writer, in way that's cunning |
| WHALING | Hunt the Inuit participate in |
