| CLOAM | From the Old English for "mud", a provincial Devonshire or Cornish word meaning "made of clay"; or, earthenware collectively (5) |
| SALUT | Champagne bottle also called a piccolo; a traditional Devonshire or Cornish cream- and jam-filled bun; or, a coastal city in Croatia (5) |
| AUREATE | Word meaning made of gold(7) |
| KERNOW | Cornish word for Cornwall (6) |
| DEBO | Family nickname of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire or "housewife duchess", nee Mitford, who was the chatelaine of Chatsworth for 54 years (4) |
| INE | Suffix meaning 'made of' |
| PATROL | From "paw about" and "paddle in mud", a word for a beat, guard, night-watch, vigil or other going of the rounds; a detachment of soldiers sent on reconnaissance; or, a subdivision of a troop of Guides |
| CHIME | From the Old English for "cymbal", a set of bells tuned in a scale; their harmonious peal; a sequence of melodious notes as sounded by a clock; or, the stroke of a clapper (5) |
| MAIN | From the Old English for "strength", a word for power or force; the chief part; a principal cable, duct or pipe; or, the high sea or open ocean (4) |
| BOWER | From the Old English for "dwelling" and the German for "birdcage", a shady spot under trees in a wood or a garden; a picturesque country cottage; or, a lady's private boudoir (5) |
| RAKE | From the Old English for "heap up", a gardening tool for gathering autumn leaves or for smoothing soil; a person of thin stature, comparable to said implement; or, a debauchee or roue, such as Hogarth |
| BUSINESS | A group of ferrets; or, from the Old English for "anxiety", a word whose early sense was used to mean a state of being fully occupied, later commerce, industry or trade (8) |
| GUHR | Loose earthy deposit from water occurring in the cavities of rocks, consisting of a varying mixture of clay or ochre (4) |
| BOOK | From the Old English for "beech", a bibliophilic item printed with a story, poem etc, such as A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Chimes, Little Women or A Visit from St. Nicholas (4) |
| SEED | From the Old English for "sow", a word for a plant ovule; clover/grass grown from such; sown land; a first principle; origin; or, offspring (4) |
| SHEEN | Word, from the Old English for "beautiful" and related to the Old Norse for "white horse", for lustre; or, glistening or splendid attire (5) |
| BELLIS | From the Latin meaning "beautiful, pretty", the genus of the flower whose common name "daisy" is thought to derive from the Old English for "day's eye" (6) |
| CROP | From the Old English for "flower- head, ear of corn", a cultivated plant on a large scale collectively; or, a season's harvest, vintage or yield (4) |
| STEADING | From the Old English for "place", word for a farmhouse and the range of outbuildings surrounding it (8) |
| HUE | From the Old English for "beauty" and Swedish for "complexion, skin", a particular quality/tint of a colour, or an attribute that enables an observer to classify it as blue, red, yellow etc (3) |
