| HELPSTON | Village in which the poet John Clare was born in 1793 (8) |
| OXEYE | "The nodding ____ bends before the wind" (The Fear of Flowers, John Clare) |
| HULL | University at which the poet Philip Larkin was librarian (4) |
| RELEVANCE | Even Clare was perplexed by the connection (9) |
| CLEARHEADED | Belligerent Clare was at the front having a good understanding (5-6) |
| FREEVERSE | For which the poet does not expect a fee? (4,5) |
| AMBRIDGE | Village in which The Archers is set (8) |
| CHALFONT | ___ St Giles, Buckinghamshire village in which Milton's Cottage is a tourist attraction (8) |
| CONCORDE | Place de la ____, site in Paris where Marie Antoinette was guillotined in 1793 (8) |
| GRASMERE | Village in which Wordsworth's Dove Cottage is located |
| MILTONIC | Relating to a London-born poet, John ___ (1608 - 74) (8) |
| LOUISXVI | King of France who was guillotined in 1793, around nine months prior to his wife Marie Antoinette (5 |
| VAUCLUSE | Department of SE France created in 1793 out of parts of the departments of Bouches-du-Rhone, Drome and Basses-Alpes |
| TOAUTUMN | One of the 1819 Odes by Romantic poet John Keats (2,6) |
| DISS | Market town in Norfolk (pop 8,000), supposed to be the birth-place of the poet John Skelton (4) |
| NHILL | Situated on the Western Highway, Victoria, in which town is the poet John Shaw Neilson's cottage? (5) |
| STOKEMANDEVILLE | Buckinghamshire village in which the Paralympic Games originated in July 1948 (5,10) |
| SEAFEVEF | 1902 poem by English poet John Masefield featuring the line 'And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by' (3-5) |
| NUTWOOD | Fictional village in which the character Rupert Bear lives (7) |
| HAWORTH | West Yorkshire village in which the Bronte parsonage, home of English novelists Charlotte, Anne and Emily, is located (7) |
