| ORISIN | From Latin for "speech", an old or generally literary word for a prayer (6) |
| KYOGEN | Translating as "mad words, crazy speech", an old form of Japanese comedy, traditionally performed during intermissions of Noh plays (6) |
| SARTOR | An old literary word for a tailor (6) |
| SPHERE | A globe; a literary word for the night sky perceived as a vaulted roof; or, a class or stratum of society (6) |
| EATAGE | An old or dialect word for grazing rights or pasturage; or, aftermath, fodder, grass, hay, provender and the like, for browsing cattle or horses (6) |
| CHORDS | Harmonic sets of three or more musical notes played simultaneously; or, an old or poetic word for the strings of instrument such as a harp (6) |
| DAMSEL | Based on domina, "mistress", an old or poetic word for a maiden, source of a title referring to a French "Miss" (6) |
| ARRECT | Word meaning pricked up or upright, as in an animal's ears; or, generally attentive or on the alert (6) |
| SHADES | Portraits in silhouette; hues mixed with black; short word for light-bulb covers; or, literary word for ghosts (6) |
| ORISON | An old-fashioned term for a prayer (6) |
| WISING | _ up: making or becoming aware of a secret or generally unknown fad? (6) |
| PAMPER | Word for "cram with food, feed luxuriously" originally, now to coddle, overindulge or generally spoil (6) |
| BOWER | Literary word for a country cottage or summer house; a shady place in a garden or wood; or, a lady's private boudoir in a medieval castle (5) |
| STEED | From Old English for "stallion" or "stud", an archaic or literary word for a swift spirited horse or charger (5) |
| GYRE | A literary word for a circle, revolution, ring, spiral, swirl or whirl, thus an atmospheric/oceanic vortex; or, a whorl of leaves or petals (4) |
| ESKY | From an old or pejorative word for an Inuit, by association with a cold climate, an Australian name for a chilly bin or cool box, for drinks or tucker (4) |
| AUSTER | Literary word for the south wind (6) |
| SWAN | A waterfowl with a species named after an engraver and naturalist who created the Chillingham Bull woodcut; or, a literary word for a bard/poet (4) |
| AFFIANCE | From the Old French for "trust", a literary word for a pledge of faith such as betrothal or engagement (8) |
| OAT | A cereal grass with grains traditionally fed to racehorses to gee them up; literary word for a straw of said plant as a shepherd's pipe; or, a pastoral poem generally (3) |
