| CHANTRYPIGG | Father Hugh, a character in Rose Macaulay's novel The Towers of Trebizond (7-4) |
| SWAN | Hugh, a 12th-century bishop of Lincoln, was often depicted with this avian companion |
| MACAULAY | Author of novels The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond (4,8) |
| ROSE | Author of novels The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond (4,8) |
| ROSEMACAULAY | Author of novels The World My Wilderness and The Towers of Trebizond |
| SCOTT | Author of the Raj Quartet comprising The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils (5) |
| TWO | The - Towers, second volume of The Lord of the Rings (3) |
| GALLOWGATETWINS | Nickname of the Bluevale and Whitevale Towers of Glasgow, once the tallest buildings in Scotland (10,5) |
| MINARETS | What are the slender towers of a mosque called? (8) |
| OESTE | Towers of the West... Torres de ___ (Fortress ruins in Spain linked to Viking invasions) |
| ROAD | No greens in rose garden - that's the way to go (4) |
| SENSOR | Picking up the readings of Nabokov initially in Roses, going all the way back (6) |
| ORIENTEXPRESS | Train expert in roses in a different way (6,7) |
| BLACKSEA | 1980 album by XTC featuring the singles Generals and Majors and Towers of London |
| SPROUT | Opening of rose in rose bud (6) |
| OFFERS | The bids the fellows put in rose ridiculously (6) |
| REREDOS | The screen shows scarlet in rose variety (7) |
| OGRES | Bugbears, creating havoc in rose garden, for a start (5) |
| NELSONEDDY | American who starred as a Canadian Mountie in "Rose-Marie" (1936): 2 wds. |
| RESTORED | Put back in its original condition by time in rose-red fluid (8) |
