| BREDON | Worcestershire hill (known to A Shropshire Lad) (6) |
| YFAL | Welsh hill, known in English as the Sugar Loaf (1,3) |
| WREKIN | The -; hill and distinctive landmark between Telford and Shrewsbury, mentioned in A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (6) |
| ARCANA | Things known to a select few |
| INSIDE | Like information known to a select few |
| AEHOUSMAN | English poet best known for A Shropshire Lad (1,1,7) |
| HOUSMAN | A.E. --, author of 'A Shropshire Lad' (7) |
| ENGLISH | ___ rose; designation of a flower bred by David Austin such as Wollerton Old Hall, Gertrude Jekyll or A Shropshire Lad (7) |
| BLUE | Dennis Potter drama that took its title from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (4,10,5) |
| AEH | "A Shropshire Lad" auth. |
| SALOPIAN | Girl's piano arrangement for A Shropshire Lad? |
| HOUSEMAN | Author of "A Shropshire Lad" entertains English student |
| ONWENLOCKEDGE | Vaughan Williams song cycle based on poems from A Shropshire Lad |
| THELANDOFLOST | How Housman described those 5/9/17 in the second stanza of A Shropshire Lad XL? (3,4,2,4,7) |
| INSIDESTORY | Facts known to a select few ... and a hint to each set of circled letters |
| ESOTERIC | Note: habitual drunkard chap is known to a few |
| AIRED | Made one's views known to a top communist (5) |
| TRINITY | College well known to a 52dn (7) |
| RIDGE | What is a chain of hills known as (5) |
| PENNINES | With the highest peak Cross Fell in Cumbria, a range of hills known as the "backbone of England" (8) |
