| TELFORD | Nicknamed the Colossus of Roads by Robert Southey, a builder of canals, churches, roads, aqueducts and a number of bridges including one spanning the Menai Strait (7) |
| THOMASTELFORD | Scottish engineer, dubbed "Colossus of Roads" by his friend Robert Southey |
| EPIGRAM | ---- On Rough Roads, by Robert Burns (7) |
| INCHCAPE | Another name for the Bell Rock, a notorious reef off the east coast of Angus, subject of a famous poem by Robert Southey |
| AFTERBLENHEIM | Poem by Robert Southey (5,8) |
| KERBSIDE | Part of road by the pavement |
| HELIOS | Greek god represented by the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (6) |
| RHODES | The Colossus of this Greek city was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world |
| LAKES | Bodies of water in a region of England associated with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey (5) |
| JOHN | Second president of the United States (1797-1801), known as 'the Colossus of Independence' (4) |
| ADAMS | Second president of the United States (1797-1801), known as 'the Colossus of Independence' (5) |
| LAKEPOETS | Literary group of the early 19th century that comprised Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey and William Wordsworth (4,5) |
| ENGINEER | Originally a builder of fortifications, siege artillery and mechanical weapons such as trebuchets, later a designer/maker of machinery or structures such as bridges or roads (8) |
| SEVEN | The Colossus of Rhodes and six more! (5,7,2,3,5) |
| WORLD | The Colossus of Rhodes and six more! (5,7,2,3,5) |
| OFTHE | The Colossus of Rhodes and six more! (5,7,2,3,5) |
| WONDERS | The Colossus of Rhodes and six more! (5,7,2,3,5) |
| INCHCAPEROCK | Ballad by English poet Robert Southey (8,4) |
| LEONE | 1960's The Colossus of Rhodes was his directorial debut |
| REMBRANDT | Whom Rodin called "the colossus of art" |
