| LAMBSWOOL | A first shearing of an old English drink (5-4) |
| UNDECIDED | A French duke twice imbibing English drink shortly in an uncertain state? (9) |
| GINGERALE | Lager/gin mixture. An English drink (6,3) |
| AESC | Name of an Old English letter, a ligature of a and e |
| CHAMPAGNE | Winner has nag about English drink (9) |
| OENOMEL | Served with a twist of lemon, old English drink |
| HALL | Great -; large room at the heart of an old English manor house, entered via a screens passage (4) |
| STAVES | Archaic plural of an Old English word for "walking-stick" that is used to mean slats of barrels/tubs or sets of lines for musical notation (6) |
| SHAGGY | Word used to describe the pileus of a "lawyer's wig" mushroom or the coat of an Old English sheepdog (6) |
| WHIG | Supporter of an old English political party (4) |
| BOOZE | Dickens introduced old English drink (5) |
| BEOWULF | Scandinavian hero of an Old English epic poem (7) |
| SPRAT | Jack of an old English nursery rhyme |
| BOAR | Part of an old English Christmas feast |
| HUNDRED | The number of an old English county in part (7) |
| 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) |
| GOOSE | The female of the waterfowl forming part of a gaggle with its male counterpart the gander; an old English board game bearing a picture of said bird; or, a tailor's iron (5) |
| BOBS | Boars, grunters, pigs or swine; yearling sheep before their first shearing; or, old slang for shillings (4) |
| ACRE | Unit of land measure whose name derives from an Old English word for the area that could be ploughed by a yoke of oxen in a single day (4) |
| ISLAND | Based on an Old English word meaning "watery", a mass of terra firma such as a cay, key, eyot, inch, holm, skerry or any other one of those forming an archipelago (6) |
