| STBERNARDS | Originally bred at a hospice for travellers in the Alps, the national dogs of Switzerland (2,8) |
| IMARET | Arab in time settled in hospice for travellers in Turkey (6) |
| STBERNARD | Either of two passes across the Alps, the Great or the Little (2,7) |
| AKC | Org. associated with The National Dog Show which traditionally telecasts on Thanksgiving in the States |
| ELKHOUNDS | National dogs of Norway |
| BERNESE | ___ Mountain Dog (Working dog of Switzerland) |
| SAINTBERNARD | Very large dog of a breed originally kept to rescue travellers in the Alps (5,7) |
| SAINT | Holy person in the Christian faith who, for example, can intercede for travellers in the case of Chr |
| RENNIE | Iain ____ was the first patient of a hospice at home service founded in Buckinghamshire in 1985 |
| HAIRLINE | Hotel company for travellers in the edge of Barnet (8) |
| LENEY | Famous strain of carp bred at Redmire - in Swale, NE Yorks! (5) |
| LAZARETTO | Hospice for leprosy sufferers |
| STUD | Where horses are bred at Sandringham (4) |
| MONTACUTEHOUSE | 64-ton emu bred at NT property (9,5) |
| DALMATIANS | Dogs of a breed featured in a children's novel by Dodie Smith (10) |
| PILOTWHALE | Traveller in the main story sounding keen to tour India (5,5) |
| COMETOLIFE | Grow excited over fiction featuring female space traveller in the lead (4,2,4) |
| POMERANIAN | A small breed of dogs of the Spitz type (10) |
| REDSETTERS | Informal name for gun dogs of a breed resembling spaniels with rufous-coloured coats (3,7) |
| POSTCHAISE | Make orderly at hospices carry letters in one |
