| TOLT | An Old English writ (4) |
| 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) |
| WHIG | Supporter of an old English political party (4) |
| OBOE | Ex-student has an old English instrument (4) |
| AESC | An Old English rune (4) |
| NINE | Number of lives of a cat, according to an old English proverb or myth (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) |
| HALL | Great -; large room at the heart of an old English manor house, entered via a screens passage (4) |
| CATS | Animals with nine lives, according to an Old English proverb (4) |
| ENTS | Tolkien's tree-like Middle-earth beings whose names derive from an Old English word for "giants" (4) |
| BEAT | Related to the name of a heavy mallet used to strike blows, an Old English word used to mean conquer, defeat or overcome (4) |
| HIDE | Word for an animal's pelt that shares a prehistoric root with the Latin cutis; an Old English unit of land sufficient to support a household; or, a birdwatcher's or gamekeeper's camouflaged shelter in |
| BEDE | Sleeping place last one for an old English Saint |
| BOAR | Part of an old English Christmas feast |
| 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 |
| THORN | An Old English and Old Norse letter (5) |
| PENNI | The old Finnish coin sounds like an old English coin (5) |
| 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) |
| LAMBSWOOL | A first shearing of an old English drink (5-4) |
| 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) |
