Complete Clue List
Across
1. 1925 Woolf novel detailing a day in the life of the eponymous Clarissa (3,8)
7. Woolf wrote an essay on "Lord Chesterfield's Letters to ____ Son"
9. Home of a mythological lion
10. Short story Woolf wrote c. 1923 about a character romanticising her forbears
11. Pasta dish
12. Musical composition
13. In 2014, London's National Portrait Gallery chose to ____ paintings of Woolf by her contemporaries
15. Travel on horseback
18. Dines with others, such as Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
20. Convertible couches (7 or 3,4)
23. In the company of
24. Inebriate: "Trio" by William Boyd (2020) describes an ____ writer interested in Woolf's suicide
26. A woman's diaries left for her husband before her suicide: Woolf's 1940 short story "____" (3,6)
27. Irish novelist: ____ Binchy
28. "Absolutely!"
29. 1919 Woolf novel about the lives and romances of Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet: "____" (5,3,3)
Down
1. 1A was based in part on Woolf's unfinished short story "The Prime ____"
2. 1921 Woolf short story evoking compassion
3. Embarrass
4. Eagerly accepted (5,2)
5. More erratic
6. 24 hours ago
7. Begin a tryst (4,2) as Woolf did in 1922 with Vita Sackville-West
8. English county of Woolf's country house retreat in Firle near Lewes
14. Pair of colourful short sketches published by Woolf in 1921: "____ & ____" (4,5)
16. Erudite (4-4) as Woolf certainly was
17. 1921 Woolf short story: several young women form their own grouping within the wider community (1,7)
19. Sumatran large black gibbon, "Symphalangus syndactylus"
20. Solve a code
21. Somewhat: Woolf's (1934) lengthy title for an indeterminate piece: "Ode Written ____ in Prose..."
22. Woolf works: she produced nine of them
25. The relationship between nature and ____ beings (persons) frequently inspired Woolf's writing