| PAROCHIAL | Friend accommodates a mixed choir of the parish (9) |
| WORKHORSE | Boxer of Animal Farm, with a turn for the right where one went on the parish (9) |
| SLANDERER | Islander erroneously accommodates a mud-slinger (9) |
| HOOKESLAW | What you may get when boxed salad accommodates a little ethical principle (6,3) |
| PARSONAGE | Dwelling provided by the parish |
| GLOW | With "moonlight", a hasty departure or disappearing act to avoid payment of rent owed, supposedly at night by the rays of the "parish lantern" (4) |
| FLIT | With "moonlight", a hasty departure or disappearing act to avoid payment of rent owed, supposedly at night by the rays of the "parish lantern" (4) |
| GALT | John ?, Scottish author of novels The Ayrshire Legatees and Annals of the Parish |
| MOONSHINE | Word for light reflected onto Earth from Luna, the "parish lantern"; hooch or poteen distilled or smuggled at night; appearance without substance; empty talk or nonsense; or, according to Shakespeare, |
| FRANKPICKLE | Clerk of the parish council played by John Bluthal in 'The Vicar of Dibley' (5,6) |
| NEWSLETTER | Accommodation in western scheme offers a view of the parish (10) |
| HORTON | Vicar of Dibley's chairman of the parish council, David ... (6) |
| CARTHEW | The car broke down at the start of the week, whilst on our way to a village in the parish of Treverbyn (7) |
| LIPPI | Florentine artist noted for his cycle of frescoes in the choir of Prato cathedral (5) |
| TOWN | O Little ... Of Bethlehem is traditionally sung by the choir of King's College, Cambridge |
| OVANTES | (People) rejoicing, eg the choir of friends Geo. 1.346 |
| ORCHID | It's blooming good to join a choir of 500! |
| GOOSTREY | An ancient farming village off Junction 18 of the M6, near Jodrell Bank Observatory; the parish contains the hamlet of Blackden (8) |
| GLUVIAN | In the parish of St. Columb Major, in the middle of July, I was hit by a van and my right leg got broken (7) |
| BOARDER | Part of the garden accommodates a lodger (7) |
