| RIEVAULXABBEY | First Cistercian monastery in the north of England, founded in 1132 (8,5) |
| MELROSE | Abbey that was the first Cistercian monastery in Scotland (7) |
| YORK | Walled city in the North of England, founded by the Romans as Eboracum (4) |
| READING | Large town in the south of England, founded in the 8th century (7) |
| RIEVAULX | Picturesque village in Yorkshire that is home to the ruined "Rye Valley" Cistercian abbey, founded in 1132 (8) |
| JERVAULXABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery near Leyburn in North Yorkshire (8,5) |
| NEWBATTLE | Former Cistercian monastery in Midlothian, founded in 1140 (9) |
| CARMINABURANA | Medieval Latin verse anthology found in a monastery in 1803, partly used in the most famous 20th-century cantata |
| IONA | Island in the Hebrides where Saint Columba founded a monastery in the 6th Century (4) |
| FOUNTAINSABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery near Ripon founded in the 12th century (9,5) |
| TEES | River in the north of England, rising in the Pennines, and flowing 85 miles into the North Sea (4) |
| WASPS | Professional rugby union team in Coventry, England, founded in 1867 (5) |
| STOWE | An independent school in southern England, founded in 1923 (5) |
| HALLE | Orchestra in Manchester, England, founded in 1858 (5) |
| ABBEY | Type of monastery such as the one on the island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, or the former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Burgundy (5) |
| DALES | Yorkshire -; National Park in the north of England in which the Three Peaks of Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside are situated (5) |
| BENEDICTINE | Liqueur made from a secret formula developed at a French monastery in the 16th century |
| LAMASERAI | Monastery in the morning surrounded by intense light - excellent (9) |
| ROCHEABBEY | 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Rotherham in South Yorkshire (5,5) |
| BYGUM | The way they stick together in the North of England? Golly! (2,3) |
