| ISLANDERS | The -; novel by Nikolai Leskov, Russian author of The Sealed Angel, The Enchanted Wanderer and Lefty (9) |
| ATDAGGERSDRAWN | Anti-nihilist novel by Nikolai Leskov that ruined his reputation when serialised in 1870 |
| REENACT | What members of the Sealed Knot do: carry stick around in wet (2-5) |
| MERLE | Willie's "Pancho and Lefty" co-singer |
| ROVER | The wanderer and his dog? (5) |
| NOMAD | A wanderer and I cut up bananas (5) |
| HONESTY | Saint punching angel, the recommended policy? (7) |
| TURGENEV | Ivan ___, Russian author of the novels Rudin and Fathers and Sons (8) |
| LERMONTOV | Mikhail ___, 19th-century Russian author of the novel A Hero of Our Time (9) |
| LYADOV | Russian composer of the tone poems, Baba Yaga, Kikimora and The Enchanted Lake (6) |
| CLAREQUILTY | Author of playlet The Enchanted Hunters murdered by Humbert Humbert in 1955 Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita (5,6) |
| GOGOL | Russian writer of the short stories, The Overcoat and The Nose (5) |
| SOULS | and 19ac, 1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol (4,5) |
| DEAD | and 19ac, 1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol (4,5) |
| DEADSOULS | and 19ac, 1842 novel by Nikolai Gogol (4,5) |
| SADDUCEES | Jewish sect of ancient Israel that denied the supernatural (angels, the resurrection etc.) unlike the rival Pharisees (9) |
| LANDSCAPE | Painting such as Claude's The Ford, Village Fete, Seaport at Sunset or The Enchanted Castle and the type of scene depicted in such (9) |
| TOLSTOY | Leo, Russian author of the novel War and Peace (7) |
| BLYTON | Keen bridge player, gardener and pianist who set aside musical ambitions for a typewriter at her cottage "Old Thatch", to write The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Secret Island, The Wishi |
| FARAWAY | The - Tree; series of books for children by Enid Blyton that starts with The Enchanted Wood (7) |
