| SINEWY | Like the village |
| NAVAL | Like the Village People? |
| SAD | Sorrowful, like the village is about Rishi Sharma (3) |
| HAMLET | Shakespeare play that is like the village in box E (6) |
| MERE | Village four miles south-west of Altrincham; its name derives from the lake at the heart of the community; Hoo Green is about one mile to the east of the village (4) |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet remembered for narratives and ballads including The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Village Blacksmith and his epic The Song of Hiawatha (10) |
| LADON | River in the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece that rises on the western slope of the Aroania mountain, near the village of Kastria |
| DUNEISTEIN | Archaeological site on an inter-tidal sea stack on the north east coast of the Isle of Lewis, near the village of Knockaird |
| ANNE | Forename of the heroine in novels by L. M. Montgomery set around the fictional farm Green Gables and the village Avonlea (4) |
| DESAI | Anita -, author of the novels In Custody and The Village by the Sea (5) |
| CRABBE | A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works such as The Village and The Borough were esteemed by Tennyson (6) |
| IVAN | First Russian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933) known for novels such as The Village (1910) and The Life of Arseniev (1927-39) (4,5) |
| BUNIN | First Russian recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1933) known for novels such as The Village (1910) and The Life of Arseniev (1927-39) (4,5) |
| SEA | Anita Desai's The Village by the ___ |
| HIGHLANDER | Christopher Lambert played Connor Macleod from 'the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shie |
| BACCARAT | Gambling card game or the village in Lorraine which gave its name to the famous manufacturer of crys |
| JOHNCLARE | English poet whose volumes included The Rural Muse and The Village Minstrel (4,5) |
| WALES | Country, site of the village with the longest name in Britain (5) |
| SIGOURNEYWEAVER | Alice Hunt in the 2004 movie, The Village (9,6) |
| SANTORINI | Island within the Cyclades traditionally called Thera, site of the village Oia (9) |
