| GRASMERE | Lake district home of the Wordsworths |
| BRANTWOOD | John Ruskin's Lake District home overlooking Coniston Water |
| COVENTGARDEN | London district, home to a former market and the Royal Opera House |
| SHEPHERDSBUSH | London district, home to Queens Park Rangers (9,4) |
| KEW | SW London district, home to a World Heritage site |
| HAMMERSMITH | London district, home to Riverside Studios (11) |
| CRUMPSALL | Manchester district, home to a major city workhouse built in 1855 (9) |
| CAMDEN | London district, home to Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (6) |
| ECHO | Verbal repetition for City district house (4) |
| 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) |
| IDIOT | The ____ Boy and The Mad Mother were two of Wordsworth's poems in the Lyrical Ballads collection |
| CELANDINE | Meaning "swallow" because its season was believed to parallel the migration of said bird, a wood anemone-like plant that was William Wordsworth's favourite flower (9) |
| IAMBIC | Like much of Wordsworth's poetry |
| ODES | Some of Wordsworth's words |
| YEWTREE | Wordsworth's "pride of Lorton Vale" |
| ERE | Wordsworth's "___ With Cold Beads of Midnight Dew" |
| METRE | Feature of Wordsworth's poetry |
| ASLEEP | Wordsworth's birth was dead to the world (6) |
| SOLITARY | Very fond of books without hesitation, like Wordsworth's lass |
| PROEM | In Wordsworth's words, perhaps, start to recite The Prelude |
