| URIEL | Regent of the Sun in John Milton poem Paradise Lost |
| PARADISE | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lost, John Milton poem (8) |
| ARCED | Like the path of the sun in the sky |
| SOLAR | There's talk of the sun in Laos, right? (5) |
| ENDUE | "For the Spirit... shall them with wondrous gifts ___" (John Milton Paradise Lost (1667) bk. 12, ll. 497-500) (5) |
| MUSIC | 'Such sweet compulsion doth in ___ lie' (John Milton 'Arcades') (5) |
| COMUS | Masque by John Milton published in 1637 (5) |
| MILTON | John ?, author of the epic poem Paradise Lost |
| HOURS | 'Call on the lazy leaden-stepping ___' (John Milton 'On Time' (1645) |
| JOHNMILTON | 17th-century author of the epic poem Paradise Lost (4,6) |
| ISITS | "The mind ___ own place ..." (John Milton) |
| EVE | Woman in the poem Paradise Lost |
| WILLIAM | 1st Earl of Pembroke; regent of the nine-year-old Henry III (7,7) |
| SOL | Personification of the sun in Roman mythology; counterpart of the Greek Helios (3) |
| SPLENDOUR | Sun in -; term for a heraldic representation of the Sun in its glory with rays and a human face (9) |
| TANK | Little Kim got a touch of the sun in the army (4) |
| RACE | Milton poem largely about the temptation of Christ |
| LALLEGRO | Milton poem whose title is "the happy man" in Italian |
| SOPHIA | Regent of Russia who, in 1689, was forced to step down in favour of her half-brother Peter I (6) |
| LOUISE | --- of Savoy, mother of King Francis I and regent of France in 1515, 1525-26 and 1529 (6) |
