| GREYFRIAR | Fell in the Lake District, or a Franciscan monk (9) |
| CALAMITY | A hit in the financial district, or a disaster (8) |
| PARISH | Church district ... or a European capital plus a letter |
| POPLAR | East London district - or a deciduous tree (6) |
| BACON | Roger -, English Franciscan monk and scholar who died in 1294 (5) |
| FRIAR | Franciscan monk, Robin's friend Tuck (5) |
| CORDELIER | A Franciscan friar, so called because of his girdle consisting of a knotted cord (9) |
| ENNERDALE | Containing the most-westerly lake in the Lake District, a remote Cumbrian valley forming part of the Coast to Coast walk route (9) |
| POORCLARE | Nun of a Franciscan order founded in 1212 (4,5) |
| WASTWATER | Lake in the Lake District noted as the deepest in England (9) |
| OBSERVANT | A Franciscan friar; attentive (9) |
| ULLSWATER | Second-largest lake in the Lake District, on the border between the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland (9) |
| AMBLESIDE | Cumbrian town at the head of Windermere, largest lake in the Lake District (9) |
| HELVELLYN | Mountain in the Lake District in England south-east of Keswick (9) |
| GRIZEDALE | Forest in the Lake District (9) |
| OLDMAN | ____ of Coniston, fell in the Furness Fells in the English Lake District (3,3) |
| TROUTBECK | Fish stream in the Lake District |
| COUNT | Foreign nobleman, equal in rank to an earl; or, his title, which is the root of a term for a comital district or shire (5) |
| SOLDIERSTOWER | University of Toronto's carillon structure honouring the memory of the members of the school who fell in the World Wars: 2 wds. |
| BOROUGH | Word for a citadel or fortress originally, later a district or town (7) |
