| THOMASHARDY | Tess of the d'Urbervilles novelist who is buried at Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| ISAACNEWTON | Formulator of the law of gravity who is buried at Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| CHARLESDARWIN | On the Origin of Species author who is buried at Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| SAMUELJOHNSON | 18th Century English writer and lexicographer who is buried at Westminster Abbey (6,7) |
| CHARLESDICKENS | Oliver Twist novelist who was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey: 2 wds. |
| PAULWALKER | The Fast and the Furious actor who is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills: 2 wds. |
| JOHNRITTER | 8 Simple Rules actor who is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park: 2 wds. |
| BRAILLE | Louis who is buried at the Pantheon |
| CHOPIN | Poland's greatest composer, who is buried at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris (6) |
| JOHNSON | Samuel ?, 18th-century English writer and lexicographer buried at Westminster Abbey, London (7) |
| CHAUCER | Writer buried at Westminster Abbey |
| ROYALS | Many are buried at Westminster Abbey |
| DRABBLE | Margaret -; biographer and novelist who is the wife of Michael Holroyd and sister of A. S. Byatt (7) |
| DOROTHY | ___ L. Sayers, English detective novelist who is remembered as one of the four 'Queens of Crime' (7) |
| HEYBABE | Casual greeting formed by a third-person pronoun + an anagram of "abbey": 2 wds. |
| HARDY | Novelist from Dorset who penned Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Woodlanders and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (5) |
| ALEC | One of the d'Urbervilles in "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" |
| GOLDSTATECOACH | As per Coronation Day... The royal horse-drawn transport of eight Windsor Greys carrying Their Majesties to Buckingham Palace after the official crowning at Westminster Abbey: 3 wds. |
| HEMINGWAY | Ernest ___ American novelist who is famous for his novel The Old Man and the Sea |
| ANGEL | ___ Clare, eventual husband of Tess in the novel Tess Of The D'Urbervilles (5) |
