| LEETS | Historically, courts of record held by some manorial lords; or, Scots for rolls of candidates suitable for posts (5) |
| LEET | Court of record held by feudal lords (historical) |
| EERIE | From "cowardly", northern English or Scots for "fearful" originally, now "creepy, spooky, uncanny, weird" (5) |
| DOVECOT | Culverhouse for pigeons and birds symbolising peace, often kept by manorial lords in medieval England (7) |
| STEEL | Courts of record formerly backed trustworthiness |
| RECEPTORS | They receive information of record held by churchmen (9) |
| BREADBASKET | Place for rolls of cash head of bank takes out |
| CIGARCASE | Holder for rolls of tobacco leaves (5,4) |
| LIEGE | Manorial lord |
| SHAW | An old or dialect word for a copse, thicket or woodland; Scots for the leafy top of a potato/turnip; or, an assumed name of Lawrence of Arabia (4) |
| DINK | Short word for a two-wheeled vehicle with a human for an engine; or, Scots dialect for a nest or swarm of ants, hornets, wasps or wild bees (4) |
| BECK | Northern English word, of Old Norse origin, for a brook or a stream with a stony bed; a summoning nod, wave or forefinger gesture; or, Scots dialect for a bow or a curtsey (4) |
| LADIES | Wives or widows of lords, or polite forms of address for women; nine of which are dancing in The Twelve Days of Christmas (6) |
| PEEWEE | From Scots for "little, tiny", word for a small child, mini toy marble or other diminutive person/thing; or, one of the onomatopoeic epithets of a lapwing, magpie lark or tyrant flycatcher (6) |
| FLUMMERY | Dialect word for a kind of cold porridge, pudding or Scots sowens of oatmeal; blancmange; anything insipid; or, empty talk, humbug, meaningless flattery or nonsense (8) |
| TATTY | From Scots for "matted, shaggy, tangled", a word used to mean shabby, tawdry, threadbare or worn-out; cheap or of poor quality; or, fussy, as in clothes or ornament (5) |
| SPENCE | Old dialect or Scots word for a cottage parlour; a buttery, larder, pantry or other storeroom for victuals and domestic equipment; or, a monetary allowance (6) |
| HILARY | Named after a French bishop, the spring term of the courts of England and Wales and the courts of Ireland as well as the universities of Oxford and of Dublin (6) |
| HOPES | Desires or wishes; enclosures; combes; or, borrowed from Old Norse, Scots for small bays or havens (5) |
| DOCKS | Wharfs; bony tops of tails; or, from Flemish for "chicken coops, rabbit hutches, sties", enclosures for the accused in courts of law (5) |
