| THORP | An Old English word for village or hamlet (5) |
| TOWNE | "Olde" word for village |
| WICCA | An Old English word for a male sorcerer, revived by neopagans as the name of their religion (5) |
| VICUS | A terrace, street, village or hamlet |
| KNAVE | Old English word for a boy ; or, another word for the jack in cards (5) |
| STOKE | Common prefix for English towns and villages, from the Old English word for place (5) |
| APPLE | Old English word for a pome such as a pippin or Granny Smith that originally meant all fruits (5) |
| REEVE | Old English word for an Anglo-Saxon high official and one, with "shire", from which "sheriff" derives (5) |
| YULE | From an Old Norse name for a 12-day pagan festival celebrated at the winter solstice, an Old English word for "December, January" and also for "Christmastide" (4) |
| TITLE | Old English word originally denoting an inscription or descriptive placard giving information about an object, later the distinctive name of a book or other composition (5) |
| 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) |
| CLOUD | Old English word originally referring to a hill or a rock, later a visible mass of condensed fog or frozen crystals floating in the air (5) |
| ABBAS | Word linking with Cerne, Compton, Melbury, Milton and Winterbourne for villages and civil parishes in Dorset (5) |
| FAVRILE | From an Old English word for "handmade" or "of a craftsman", the name of iridescent ornamental art glass developed by Tiffany (7) |
| DIAMONDS | From an Old English word for "untameable, invincible", precious stones sometimes brought to Earth's surface during rare volcanic eruptions of kimberlite magma; or, rhombi (8) |
| EARLY | Old English word and an antonym of "late" that is found in a proverb that emphasises being first, to improve one's chances of success (5) |
| SHEIK | Leader of an Arab village or family (5) |
| ACRE | Unit of land measure whose name derives from an Old English word for the area that could be ploughed by a |
| ENTS | Tolkien's tree-like Middle-earth beings whose names derive from an Old English word for "giants" (4) |
| MOOD | From an Old English word with a range of meanings including courage, fierceness, heart, mind and thought, a noun for one's "good" or "bad" temper; the general atmosphere, feeling or pervading tone; or |
