| GRASMERE | Village in the Lake District where William Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy in Dove Cottage (8) |
| SCHWITTERS | Artist who fled Nazi Germany to the Lake District where he sought both refuge and refuse by means of peace and by the found objects or rubbish for his "Merz" collages (10) |
| WORDSWORTH | Lake Poet who lived with his family in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, where he wrote many of his major works (10) |
| RYDAL | Village in the Lake District, location of William Wordsworth's family home after Dove Cottage, where Dora's Field was planted and he wrote a final version of "Daffodils" (5) |
| VUILLARD | Painter who lived with his mother, a dressmaker, until he was 60, hence themes of cloth/sewing in his many works including The Flowered Dress, The Seamstress, The Striped Blouse, The Thread and Walkin |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| SYKES | He lived with his twin sister at 24 Sebastapol Terrace in the 1970s British sitcom named after him; |
| HANSEL | Brother in Grimm's Fairy Tales who finds a gingerbread house in the woods with his sister (6) |
| OSIRIS | God who was said to be in love with his sister while still in the womb(!) |
| LAMB | What was the surname of Charles, the English essayist who, with his sister Mary, wrote Tales from Shakespeare? (4) |
| PEVENSEY | ____ Bay, cove in East Sussex where William the Conqueror landed in 1066 (8) |
| OVERHEAD | Bird in dove flying in the sky (8) |
| DONNYOSMOND | "Go Away Little Girl" singer who co-hosted a talk show with his sister from 1998-2000 |
| DONNY | Osmond sibling who had a hit variety show with his sister Marie (5) |
| SOHO | So, include old hotel in London district where The Secret Agent is set (4) |
| LAKEDISTRICT | English area in which one can visit Dove Cottage |
| BRIXHAM | South Devon fishing port and resort where William of Orange landed in 1688 (7) |
| CAEN | City where William the Conqueror is buried at Abbeye aux Hommes (4) |
| CIA | Org. where William J. Burns replaced Gina Haspel as director, in 2021 |
| VET | He's very experienced in dove tailing (3) |
