| CONFRERE | From the medieval French for "brother", a colleague or fellow |
| COMRADES | Colleagues or fellow members of an organisation (8) |
| TEAMMATE | A colleague or other member of a sports side (8) |
| FRERE | French for brother |
| COD | Word for a chap or fellow; a cushion or pillow; a gadoid food-fish; a hoax or jest; a pea husk; or, nonsense (3) |
| ARIL | From the medieval Latin for "raisin" or "grape pip", the covering of a nutmeg or yew seed (4) |
| PEER | From the Latin for "equal", one's confrere or fellow; or, a noble (4) |
| EXCHEQUER | From the medieval Latin meaning "chessboard", the general name for a national or royal treasury (9) |
| WHORL | Whether a coil, convolution, spiral or verticil in a corolla, fingerprint or seashell, it is an etymological spin-off from the medieval "flywheel" (5) |
| PAL | Romany word, from the Sanskrit for "brother", for a chum or mate (3) |
| POMANDER | From the medieval Latin meaning "apple of amber", a perforated silver globe containing fragrant substances; or, a clove-studded citrus fruit (8) |
| CHIVALRY | From the medieval Latin for "horse", knights, horsemen and noblemen collectively; the knightly code of conduct in feudal times; or, by extension, courage and courtesy (8) |
| BUFFOONS | People who behave foolishly, the word deriving from the medieval Latin for clown (8) |
| PITMAN | Chap or fellow distinguished by his work as a collier, digger, hatter, sawyer or tributer in a mine, quarry, shaft or other subterranean excavation (6) |
| CYMRU | Thought to derive from "compatriot" or "fellow countryman", the Welsh name for Wales (5) |
| ISRAELI | Fellow from Fair Isle, possibly - or fellow from Middle East (7) |
| CLAVICHORD | Instrument developed from the medieval monochord that flourished from about 1400 to 1800 and was revived in the 20th century. Rectangular in shape, and its case and lid were usually highly decorated, |
| REGALIA | From the medieval Latin for "royal privileges", majestic insignia such as a crown, orb and sceptre (7) |
| MEDALS | Discs or "gongs" of merit whose name, derived from the medieval Latin for "denarii", refers to said prizes' similarity in appearance to coins (6) |
| CANTAB | Coming from the medieval Latin name of the city, what means "of Cambridge"? (6) |
