| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| HARDY | Novelist of Wessex. |
| HARDY | Author of "Wessex Tales." |
| HARDY | Creator of Wessex County. |
| DORSET | Region of Hardy's "Wessex" novels. |
| EGBERT | Ninth-century king of Wessex |
| ESNE | Wessex worker |
| SERF | Wessex worker |
| DORSET | Thomas Hardy's Wessex. |
| DORSET | Real English county on which Thomas Hardy based the fictional Wessex |
