| CHRISTENDOM | Baptise Benedictine monk in the Western World generally (11) |
| CADFAEL | Fictional Benedictine monk in a series of historical murder mysteries written by Edith Pargeter (7) |
| DOWNSIDE | Catholic independent school in Somerset founded by Benedictine monks in 1617 (8) |
| ATLAS | Covering the world generally, it takes a sailor back (5) |
| TURF | Horseracing world, generally |
| SARAALLGOOD | Irish actress who created the part of Widow Quin in Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (4,7) |
| DOMPERIGNON | French Benedictine monk after whom a famous champagne is named (3,8) |
| TUBERCULOSIS | What was the leading cause of death in the Western world in the 18th and 19th centuries? (12) |
| OLEGPOPOV | The first clown from the USSR to perform in the Western world |
| LEPANTO | The Battle of ____ was the last in the western world mainly involving rowed vessels |
| POSTWAR | In the Western world, this term describes the period after 1945 |
| BOLOGNA | Italian city that is home to the oldest university in the Western world |
| PERSIA | Iran was once known in the western world by this name |
| ROUGEMONT | Denis de ___, Swiss writer whose works include L'Amour et l'Occident, translated as Love in the Western World |
| ALBINO | The monk in 'The Da Vinci Code' was one |
| APRIORI | Theoretical monk in the middle of the road |
| BEDE | Generally held to be the father of English history was the Benedictine monk, the Venerable ... |
| JETLI | Martial arts actor who plays the Silent Monk in The Forbidden Kingdom (3,2) |
| SILAS | Monk in "The Da Vinci Code" |
| HOKUM | Utter nonsense and croon, drinking Old Monk in the end (5) |
