| LAMASERAI | Monastery in the morning surrounded by intense light - excellent |
| FLOODLIT | Illuminated by intense light (8) |
| GABLE | Get a bigger light - excellent primarily for a building's end wall (5) |
| IONA | Island in the Hebrides where Saint Columba founded a monastery in the 6th Century (4) |
| RIEVAULXABBEY | First Cistercian monastery in the north of England, founded in 1132 (8,5) |
| SHAOLIN | Historic Buddhist monastery in the Songshan mountains |
| BENEDICTINE | Liqueur made from a secret formula developed at a French monastery in the 16th century |
| 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) |
| SLOPPIEST | I am surrounded by finest food at first, leading to the most messy (9) |
| PASTIME | I am surrounded by imitation jewellery: it's my hobby (7) |
| BIGNAME | Am surrounded by being mistaken for a celebrity (3,4) |
| OSIERS | I am surrounded by rambling roses and trees (6) |
| ONION | I am surrounded by rising denials of this vegetable (5) |
| LAIRD | As a Northern landowner, I am surrounded by fat! (5) |
| ANIMUS | Hostility as I am surrounded by a group of students |
| 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 |
| CARMINABURANA | Medieval Latin verse anthology found in a monastery in 1803, partly used in the most famous 20th-century cantata |
| NEEDLE | Want the Spanish uplifted by intense rivalry (6) |
