| READE | 'The Cloister and the Hearth' author |
| READES | "The Cloister and the Hearth" author and family |
| CHARLES | English author best known for the 1861 historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth (7) |
| HEARTH | The Cloister And The ____, 1861 historical novel by Charles Reade (6) |
| CLOISTER | The -------and the Hearth, novel by Charles Reade (8) |
| POMEGRANATE | Used to make grenadine, a fruit depicted with portcullises, Tudor roses and fleurs-de-lis in the roof carvings of the cloisters of St Stephen's Chapel (11) |
| SISTER | Resist what's found in the cloister (6) |
| NUNS | Insurgents release tigers in the cloister (4) |
| MONASTERY | Mastery involves one's endless commitment to the cloister (9) |
| EXTERNS | Nuns permitted out of the cloister |
| WINDSORCASTLE | Royal residence with cloisters, and in ruins |
| MONKYBARS | Taverns in cloisters and abbeys? |
| ANYA | "The Hearth and Eagle" writer Seton |
| SUN | 'The hearth of affection and life': Arthur Rimbaud |
| GARTH | Courtyard within a cloister; or, the physician who wrote the 1699 burlesque poem The Dispensary (5) |
| CAROL | An Old English round dance; the tune accompanying it; a festive hymn of joy at Christmas, such as any one of those of the Manx "Oie'll Verrey" event ; or, an enclosure for a study in a cloister (5) |
| SISTERS | They may be found in the outskirts of the Sistine Chapel and cloisters (7) |
| GLOUCESTER | With the Cotswolds to its east and the Wye Valley to its west, city with a cathedral whose cloisters were used as a location in three Harry Potter films (10) |
| COSECANT | Cloister visited on and off is unable to function |
| LOITER | Hang around cloister after chapter and saint have left |
