| BENEDICTINE | Liqueur made from a secret formula developed at a French monastery in the 16th century |
| ABBE | Superior at a French monastery |
| RECIPE | Formula developed about energy and speed of light (6) |
| IONA | Island in the Hebrides where Saint Columba founded a monastery in the 6th Century (4) |
| CREATES | PRODUCES SOMETHING NEW FROM A SECRET FORMULA |
| RIEVAULXABBEY | First Cistercian monastery in the north of England, founded in 1132 (8,5) |
| MARASCHINO | Strong, sweet liqueur made from a black cherry grown in Dalmatia (10) |
| FRERE | Address in a French monastery |
| CARMINABURANA | Medieval Latin verse anthology found in a monastery in 1803, partly used in the most famous 20th-century cantata |
| SCHNAPPS | Brandy or liqueur made from a variety of distilled fruits (8) |
| ANDANTINO | Moreover, nation developed at a slowish pace |
| DRPEPPER | Brand with a secret formula |
| ABBEY | Type of monastery such as the one on the island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, or the former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Burgundy (5) |
| NAVELORANGES | Citrus variety thought to have originated from a Selecta tree at a monastery in Bahia, Brazil (5,7) |
| LAMASERAI | Monastery in the morning surrounded by intense light - excellent (9) |
| SHAOLIN | Historic Buddhist monastery in the Songshan mountains |
| IMGOINGIN | Words from a secret agent that might follow "You stay back" |
| MONTE | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy that was accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 19 |
| CASSINO | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy that was accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 19 |
| MONTECASSINO | Site of a Benedictine monastery in central Italy accidentally destroyed by the Allies in 1944 |
