| MOONLIT | Like the forest in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| PRIMEVAL | Like the forest in Longfellow's "Evangeline" |
| GESTALT | The forest, in a metaphor |
| KIWI | Bird that sacrifices its wings to save the forest, in a popular fable |
| WOODED | Like the forest |
| ASYOULIKEIT | Play in a forest in a way that makes one happy (2,3,4,2) |
| ENGLISHOAK | Tree species native to Britain known as the king of the forest, in which Charles II hid from the Roundheads (7,3) |
| ORANGUTAN | Literally meaning "man of the forest" in the Malay language, the largest arboreal mammal, genus Pongo (9) |
| TINT | Part of the forest in the shade (4) |
| ARDEN | French forest in a Shakespeare play |
| BIGPICTURE | Forest, in a metaphor |
| ENT | Shepherd of the forest, in fantasy fiction |
| ASS | In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titania falls in love with a man with a head of a what? (3) |
| OBERON | Discovered by William Herschel in 1787, moon of Uranus named after the king of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream (6) |
| FLUTE | Worker who plays Thisbe in the play within a play in A Midsummer Night's Dream (5) |
| TITANIA | The queen of the fairies in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (7) |
| PROSE | What the Mechanicals speak in, in A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| OBER | High, in German names, as 'on' the fairy king in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" |
| THYME | 'I know a bank where the wild ___ blows' (Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream) (5) |
| DEMETRIUS | Name the lover in love with Hermia and favoured by Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream. |
