| RINGARINGOROSES | Children's rhyme believed to refer to the plague (4-1-4-1-5) |
| PELICAN | Bird associated with Elizabeth I, Louisiana and a pedestrian crossing, whose name, thought to be based on Greek for "axe", is believed to refer to its distinctive pouched beak (7) |
| STOW | Antiquary whose Survey of London during Elizabeth I's reign charts life in the capital from its castles and towers to the butchers and bakers prior to the Plague and the Great Fire (4) |
| PESTILENCE | Scattered pieces lent to the plague (10) |
| WEEWILLIEWINKIE | Boy in a nightgown, in a children's rhyme |
| TOILE | French word for "cloth", used to refer to the plain fabric used to create the pattern or muslin for a couture or made-to-measure garment (5) |
| HOI | Sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the upper classes, the term ... polloi, derived from Greek, means 'the masses' or 'the common people |
| THEFREEWORLD | Term used during the Cold War to refer to the Western Bloc of non-Communist countries collectively (3,4,5) |
| LELY | The Windsor Beauties artist whose surname is said to refer to the "fleur-de-lis" carved on the house where his father was born (4) |
| RIND | Old English word for the bark of a tree or peel of fruit that, from the 16th century, also came to refer to the outer layer, paring or skin of a cheese (4) |
| MISEENPLACE | French for "put into position", used in a restaurant kitchen setting to refer to the preparation of equipment and ingredients prior to service (4,2,5) |
| ANNO | ___ Domini, dating system used to refer to the years after the birth of Jesus (4) |
| HIPS | Term used to refer to the ripe red-orange fruits of the rose (4) |
| KELLYSEYE | Call used in the game of bingo to refer to the number 1 (6,3) |
| SPRING | Name, derived from an Old English word originally used to refer to the origin of a stream or well where water rises naturally from the earth, for a season of the year (6) |
| HISTORYBOOK | It is bound to refer to the past (7,4) |
| YOU | Used to refer to the person the speaker is addressing (3) |
| NEWWORLD | Name used to refer to the continents of North and South America (3,5) |
| HOLLAND | Region in western Netherlands, sometimes used to refer to the whole of the country |
| BURMA | Alternative name used to refer to the country of Myanmar (5) |
