| SHEIKHS | Leaders of Arab villages or families (var.) |
| SHEIK | Leader of an Arab village or family (5) |
| COTTAGES | Often thatched, cob, Cotswold stone or hamstone, dwellings traditional to rural areas, coastal towns and fishing villages, or tied to country estates for employees (8) |
| ALIBI | Provides get out of jail card to leaders of Arab localities in Beersheba, Israel (5) |
| AIDS | Helps leaders of Arab Israeli dispute central to Palestine (4) |
| SHEIKH | Silence most of Kiev returning with hothead leader of Arab community (6) |
| ABANDON | Leader of Arab gang addicted to desert (7) |
| CLANS | Groups of gamers or families |
| WICK | Dialect for a creek, dairy farm, hamlet or village; or, related to "roll of lint, yarn", a long twist of cotton fibres by which a candle or lamp's flame is fed or fuelled with beeswax, oil or tallow ( |
| SAGA | General word for a prose narrative in Old Norse recounting the deeds of Icelandic heroes or families (4) |
| TOTEMS | In some Native American societies, objects, animals or plants symbolising certain clans or families (6) |
| COMMUTE | A body of people or families living together and sharing everything. (7) |
| FEUD | Bitter and long-continued quarrel between clans or families |
| GOLDSMITH | Author of The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village ; or, a worker in the precious metal known in Latin as aurum (9) |
| ROSEBUSH | A Pembrokeshire village; or, a shrubby mass of centifolias, damasks, floribundas or related blooms (8) |
| SLEEPY | Relating to "somnus", a word for drowsy or somnolent; inducing slumber; non-buzzing, quiet or sequestered, as in a little town/village; or, overripe and unjuicy, as in a pear (6) |
| DORCHESTER | NB village; or, former name of Montreal's Boulevard Rene-Levesque |
| GOODEVE | Saskatchewan village; or, Grant of "Eight Is Enough" |
| MALIK | (India) Head of a village or community (5) |
| NEVILLE | Saskatchewan village; or, singer Aaron of "Tell It Like It Is" |
