| BASTIDE | French word for a large Provencal country house/manor, or for a fortified medieval town in SW France (7) |
| MOAT | Water-filled ditch surrounding a fortified Medieval castle, such as that in Caerphilly, South Wales (4) |
| BASTIDES | Fish around river in Provencal country houses |
| MANSION | Large house, manor-house (7) |
| ARMOUREDCAR | Rum road race arranged for a fortified vehicle (8,3) |
| LOURDES | Town in SW France where Bernadette Soubirous had visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858 (7) |
| COGNAC | Town in SW France famed for its brandy (6) |
| ASSISI | Medieval town in Umbria, birthplace of St Francis, patron of animals (6) |
| RYE | Medieval town in Merry England |
| POTATO | Informal word for a large hole in a sock or stocking; or, according to Icelandic tradition, a vegetable left by the Yule Lads in a shoe of a naughty child at Christmas (6) |
| ONER | Informal word for a big lie; a conker that has won a single match; an expert; a heavy blow; a quid, old £1 note or £100; or, a unique or extraordinary person or thing (4) |
| SWAIN | Word first for a boy servant or for a young man attending a knight, later a country youth or peasant; a rural lover; or, a male suitor or admirer (5) |
| STAPLE | A medieval town appointed a land's exclusive market for one or more commodities/exports; length of fibres in wool; or, a main element, such as a diet's basic foodstuff (6) |
| CLODHOPPER | Informal word for a large heavy boot or shoe; a country bumpkin, peasant, pleb or yokel; an awkward, clumsy or foolish person; or, a wheatear (10) |
| WALLOP | A word for a horse's sprint or for a violent boiling/bubbling motion originally, later a heavy blow; a plunge; a forceful impression; financial or physical power; a pugilist's ability to deliver a har |
| HALL | Principal room in a great house or a castle; a manor; or, a vestibule (4) |
| LADLE | From "load", as in a ship's cargo, word for a large deep spoon for lifting or serving a load of soup or sauce (5) |
| MAROON | French word for a large edible conker or chestnut, such as one prepared in the candied or glace manner as a Christmas delicacy (6) |
| EDIFICE | Word for a large or imposing building, thus a complex organisation or elaborate system of beliefs (7) |
| COCKTAIL | Old word for a horse with a docked cauda or for a racehorse with mixed lineage; now a mixed drink; a fruit medley; or, any melange (8) |
