| ICESTORMS | Make heavy weather of disbanding riots around the church and M&S |
| STORM | The most the Right can do is make heavy weather of it (5) |
| ABATTOIR | Graduate at riot around the slaughterhouse (8) |
| DEMOBILISATION | Solid ambition abandoned over European act of disbanding troops (14) |
| ROSIE | Devon's most famous export and M&S designer |
| STRUGGLE | Make heavy weather (8) |
| DOWNPOUR | Feeling dejected when they serve drink, making heavy weather of it? |
| STROMBOLI | Agitated mob riots around large site of some incendiary activity (9) |
| TREASON | Time for arson, riots around England, or another crime |
| NOVGOROD | Until their discovery, it was assumed that writing was the preserve of the church and the ruling class and that most people were illiterate. Since 1951, these medieval boiled-birch-bark documents, of |
| OCHRE | The colour of the ore found around the church (5) |
| STEEPLE | The children's finger game went, "Here is the church and here is the ...; Open the doors and see all |
| OCTENE | Seem strange seen around the church - but it was part of the plan (6) |
| SIR | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| MORE | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| THOMAS | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
| CHIMES | Half turn to the church and the sound of bells (6) |
| TITHE | Tax formerly taken for the support of the Church and clergy (5) |
| NUANCES | Suspicion of a nuns' frolic, around the church |
| RECCE | About and around the Church for a brief look (5) |
