| SCHWITTERS | Artist who fled Nazi Germany to the Lake District where he sought both refuge and refuse by means of peace and by the found objects or rubbish for his "Merz" collages (10) |
| GRASMERE | Village in the Lake District where William Wordsworth lived with his sister Dorothy in Dove Cottage (8) |
| TAUBER | Tenor who fled Nazi Germany and settled in Britain, he sang opera and such popular classics as Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life, Richard ... |
| HERDWICK | Sheep native to the Lake District, bred and raised by author, illustrator and mycologist Beatrix Potter (8) |
| WILDE | Dramatist, novelist and poet who wrote Lady Windermere's Fan during a trip to the Lake District in 1891 (5) |
| LOT | Son of Haran (Genesis 11:27) who fled to the town of Zoar to escape the destruction of Sodom (Genesis 19) (3) |
| NEISSE | River flowing from the Jizera Mountains through the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany to the Oder ( |
| ELBE | River of central Europe rising in the N Czech Republic and flowing northwest through Germany to the North Sea near Hamburg (4) |
| DANUBE | Second-longest river of Europe after the Volga, flowing from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea (6) |
| EICHMANN | Nazi war criminal who fled to Argentina after WWII, Adolf ..., was located by Israeli agents in 1960 and taken to Israel for trial and execution |
| CUMBRIA | A county described by William Wordsworth in his poems and Guide to the Lakes; location of John Ruskin's former home Brantwood on the shore of Coniston Water (7) |
| KENDAL | Cumbrian town - gateway to the Lake District (6) |
| FORCE | Moving cafe closer to the Lake District's highest waterfall (5,5) |
| SCALE | Moving cafe closer to the Lake District's highest waterfall (5,5) |
| LANDFILL | The disposal of refuse by burying it under layers of earth (8) |
| GUYBURGESS | Member of the Cambridge Five spy ring who fled to Russia and died there in 1963 (3,7) |
| SEED | "The ___ of the Sacred Fig" (film directed by Mohammad Rasoulof, who fled Iran shortly before attending its Cannes premiere, in May, 2024) |
| HILLFORT | Type of earthwork used as a refuge and typically found in the Bronze or Iron Ages (8) |
| TEESTA | River mentioned by Muhammad Yunus during his visit to China, co-shared by India, for which he sought a master plan from Beijing for water management. (6) |
| WAIST | Belt round this? Refuse, by the sound of it (5) |
