house-master in Stalky & Co. The clue paraphrases a line from Chapter 3. 15 EVERDENE - EVER + (need)*. Bathsheba Everdene is a character in Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. 18 ABSENTEE - Lord Clonbrony is a character in The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth. 20 SCENA - hidden in "coale sce na