| FARFROM | ___ ___ the Madding Crowd; Thomas Hardy's novel featuring Bathsheba Everdene and shepherd Gabriel Oak (3,4) |
| FROM | "Far ___ the Madding Crowd" |
| GABRIEL | The shepherd devoted to Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Madding Crowd (7,3) |
| OAK | The shepherd devoted to Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Madding Crowd (7,3) |
| EVERDENE | Bathsheba, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd (8) |
| SERGEANT | ____ Troy, character who marries Bathsheba Everdene in Far From The Madding Crowd (8) |
| FAR | ___ from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy novel |
| THOMASHARDY | English novelist who created the characters Angel Clare and Bathsheba Everdene (6,5) |
| VYE | Eustacia ___, heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native |
| BATHSHEBA | Heroine of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Modding Crowd (9,8) |
| CLYM | ___ Yeobright, titular character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native (1878) (4) |
| SUEBRIDEHEAD | Love interest of Jude Fawley in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure |
| ANGELCLARE | Husband of Tess in Thomas Hardy's novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| DONN | Arabella, character in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude The Obscure (4) |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (7) |
| JOHNLOVEDAY | The trumpet major of Thomas Hardy's novel |
| JUDE | --- The Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels (4) |
| STGEORGE | Symbolic protector of the English - and shepherds and farmers! (2,6) |
| HENRY | Composer who wrote Nymphs and Shepherds, the opera Dido and Aeneas, etc. (5,7) |
| PURCELL | Composer who wrote Nymphs and Shepherds, the opera Dido and Aeneas, etc. (5,7) |
