| RETURNOF | Thomas Hardy novel, The ... The Native (6,2) |
| GREENMILE | King novel, the "The" |
| ENDOF | Graham Greene novel, The ... The Affair (3,2) |
| DERRIMAN | Festus, character in the Thomas Hardy novel The Trumpet Major (8) |
| HENCHARD | Michael ?, hay-trusser; title character in 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge |
| EUSTACIAVYE | Wife of Clym Yeobright in the Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (8,3) |
| YEOBRIGHT | Clym, character in the Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (9) |
| DIGGORYVENN | Reddleman in 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| EGDONHEATH | Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native |
| VYE | Eustacia ?, wife of Clym Yeobright in Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (3) |
| DIGGORY | Reddleman in 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (7,4) |
| VENN | Reddleman in 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (7,4) |
| EGDON | & 18D Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (5,5) |
| HEATH | Setting of 1878 Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native (5,5) |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in the Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor of Casterbridge who marries Lucetta Templeman |
| MICHAELHENCHARD | Titular protagonist of the 1886 Thomas Hardy novel The Mayor Of Casterbridge (7,8) |
| EVERDENE | Bathsheba ?, character in 1874 Thomas Hardy novel Far From the Madding Crowd |
| UNDERTHE | Thomas Hardy novel featuring the character Dick Dewy (5,3,9,4) |
| THEMAYOR | Thomas Hardy novel (3,5,2,12) |
| TESS | ___ of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy novel first serialised in the illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 (4) |