| HARVEST | From the Old English meaning "autumn", the cutting and gathering of crops during the approach to the aforesaid season, or the name given to its corresponding full moon (7) |
| SILO | A farm's tower/pit for storing grain or for green crops during the process of making a haylage-like fodder (4) |
| RECAP | Run over first of crops during harvest (5) |
| ACORN | Any one of the seeds of England's national trees, sometimes falling as a bumper crop during the event in nature's calendar known as a mast year (5) |
| MOWED | He did the cutting and here's what I owe to the doctor (5) |
| ACRE | From the Old English meaning "open field", a word for a unit of land area that is etymologically related to the name of the fruit of the oak (4) |
| HAWS | From the Old English meaning "hedge", fruits of the tree Crataegus that form part of the countryside's seasonal bounty with brambles, rosehips, elderberries and sloes (4) |
| PLAY | From the Old English meaning "to exercise", "brisk movement" and related to the Middle Dutch "leap for joy, dance", a dramatic work for the stage; or, activity for amusement (4) |
| MONTH | From the Old English meaning "moon", each of the 12 divisions or lunations of the calendar year (5) |
| HOMESTRAIGHT | The section of a racecourse forming the approach to the finish (4,8) |
| KEEP | From the Old English meaning "to observe" or "compare", the donjon or tower at the heart of a medieval castle, used as a refuge (4) |
| WATCH | From the Old English meaning "to be or remain awake", a period of surveillance; a sailor's turn of duty; or, a timepiece for the wrist |
| SWEARER | He gives his oath as we're travelling to the approach to the capital, Rome (7) |
| TADPOLE | From the Old English meaning "toad head", the larva or "pollywiggle" of a frog, newt, salamander or the first mentioned amphibian; or, a political hack other than Taper in Benjamin Disraeli's novel Co |
| YARDS | From the Old English meaning "twigs", units used since the medieval period that are equal to three feet (5) |
| ENCIRCLE | Ring around from end of June to the end of autumn - the theatre should have one (8) |
| GOSSIP | From the Old English meaning "godparent", a word for a close friend or one invited to attend a birth that later came to mean chitchat, idle talk or tittle-tattle (6) |
| DAIRY | From the Old English meaning "kneader of bread", a building, farm or room where milk is processed or made into butter, cheese, cream, creme fraiche and other produce (5) |
| WRONG | From the Old English meaning "awry, unjust", word meaning either incorrect or immoral (5) |
| READERS | From the Old English meaning "interpreters of dreams", book lovers, also called bibliophagists (7) |
