| TALBOT | William Fox ___; author of The Pencil of Nature who lived at Lacock Abbey, famous for his contributions to the invention of photography (6) |
| NYMPHS | In mythology, the spirits of nature who appeared as young women (6) |
| FOUNTAINS | _ Abbey, famous ruin near Ripon (9) |
| EVENTER | General term for a type of horse ridden by equestrians Charlotte Dujardin, William Fox-Pitt or Carl |
| LACOCK | Picturesque Wiltshire village with a museum dedicated to William Fox Talbot, pioneer of photography (6) |
| MINOTAUR | Creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man who lived at the centre of the Cretan Labyrinth, in Greek mythology |
| WALPOLE | Horace -; author of The Castle of Otranto who lived at the Gothic revival villa Strawberry Hill (7) |
| ERASE | Use the soft end of the pencil |
| EMAILING | Imagine letters circulating about the end of the pencil! (8) |
| WOOLF | Bloomsbury Group author who lived at Monk's House in Sussex where she wrote Mrs Dalloway and other novels in a writing lodge at the bottom of the garden (5) |
| DARWIN | Naturalist who lived at Down House from 1842 where he studied orchids and summarised his theories of natural selection in his volume On the Origin of Species (6) |
| STERNE | Author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman who lived at Shandy Hall in North Yorkshire (6) |
| SCOTT | Author of the Waverley novels who lived at Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders and married on Christmas Eve in 1797 (5) |
| POINT | Sharp end of the pencil? Yes, no tip broken (5) |
| WORDSWORTH | Poet who lived at Dove Cottage in Grasmere with his sister Dorothy for eight years where he wrote many of his best-known works (10) |
| NICOLSON | Author of Diaries and Letters and biographies of figures including Tennyson, Byron and Swinburne who lived at Sissinghurst Castle with his wife Vita Sackville-West (8) |
| NEREIDS | Mythological sea-nymphs who lived at the bottom of the Aegean Sea and helped sailors in distress (7) |
| BREAKINGPOINT | The edge of despair for the pencil sketch artist? (8,5) |
| VEREY | Plantswoman who lived at Barnsley House near Cirencester who was keen on creating gardens that maintained their beauty throughout the winter (5) |
| CRAYON | Small stick or pencil of coloured wax used for drawing (6) |
