| 20 answers for: Victorian poet, orchardist and scholar who penned ... |
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| RANK | ANSWER | CLUE |
| BLACKMORE | Victorian poet, orchardist and scholar who penned 14 novels including his tale of 17th-century Exmoor titled Lorna Doone (9) |
| STOKER | Who, the secretary and touring manager to Sir Henry Irving for 27 years, is chiefly remembered for his tale of vampirism influenced by Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly (1872)? (6) |
| MILNE | "Dad's army"-captaining, H G Wells-tutored, Punch-contributing author who penned Peace with Honour, the play Toad of Toad Hall and poem At the Zoo, but is perhaps best known for his tales of Eeyore, O |
| EDGAR | Who published his Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840? (5,5,3) |
| ALLANPOE | Who published his Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840? (5,5,3) |
| OLDMORTALITY | Novel by Sir Walter Scott that forms, along with The Black Dwarf, the first series of his Tales of My Landlord |
| OZMAOFOZ | Third of the 14 novels in the Oz novels series by US author Frank L. Baum, published in 1907 (4,2,2) |
| ADAMDALGLIESH | Poetry-writing detective created by English author P.D. James, featured in 14 novels between 1962 and 2008 (4,9) |
| PETRARCH | 14th Century Italian lyric poet and scholar who gave his name to a sonnet form (8) |
| BRIGGS | Author-illustrator remembered for his story about the flight of a boy and a snowman on a winter's night and his tale about a grumpy Father Christmas (6) |
| INVENTORY | A list or schedule of items, such as that detailing hundreds of thousands of Henry VIII's possessions, including his diadem, furs, jewels, marmoset, palaces, ships, tapestries, textiles and suit of ar |
| MIGUEL | and 6dn, Spanish author of 17th-century satire Don Quixote (6,2,9) |
| PEPYS | His diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (5) |
| GRAHAME | Author who describes a riverbank picnic of "cold chicken, tongue, ham, beef, pickled gherkins, salad, French rolls, cress sandwiches, potted meat, ginger beer, lemonade and soda water" in his tale The |
| ISIDORE | Saint and scholar who compiled the 20-book encyclopaedia Etymologiae, which includes subjects ranging from agriculture and angels to arithmetic and astronomy (7) |
| TRAINERS | Cordons, espaliers, trees, bushes or vines, but yielding bounties of Bramleys, crops of Conferences, gluts of grapes, harvests of honeydews or rich pickings of pippins; orchardists growing nature's ri |
| BEDE | Venerable -; Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar who wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People (4) |
| LINACRE | Thomas ___, English doctor and scholar who founded London's Royal College of Physicians in 1518 (7) |
| DAVINCI | Leonardo, artist and scholar who completed his painting The Last Supper in 1498 (2,5) |
| GAINSBOROUGH | Artist noted for landscapes, portraits including The Blue Boy and The Pink Boy and, in his final decade, "fancy pictures" including his Cottage Door paintings (12) |
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