| TINTERN | Name of a ruined abbey on the River Wye near Chepstow (7) |
| MELROSE | Border town, the site of a ruined abbey refounded in the 12th century (7) |
| GODSTOW | In Oxfordshire, the site of a ruined abbey that housed an order of Benedictine nuns (7) |
| SYMONDS | Yat, popular tourist village on the River Wye (7) |
| COLUMBA | Early Irish missionary who founded the abbey on Iona |
| SAPIENT | Is it wise to visit this leading attraction in the centre of Chepstow while it is undergoing renovations? (7) |
| CASHCOW | Timber business in outskirts of Chepstow, money spinner |
| TOWPATH | Riverwalk in Chepstow Pat haunted (7) |
| ABIDEBY | Accept papers found in ruined abbey |
| CHEPSTOW | Town in Monmouthshire on the River Wye, the location of the racecourse that hosts the Welsh Grand National (8) |
| ARBROATH | A former royal burgh on the east coast (pop about 25,000), with a ruined abbey (8) |
| HIGHWYCOMBE | Town in Buckinghamshire on the River Wye northeast of Reading (4,7) |
| CELL | In the abbey on the outskirts of Cemetery Hill (4) |
| TINTERNABBEY | Ruin situated on the River Wye in Monmouthshire (7,5) |
| KELSO | ____ has the easternmost abbey on the Borders Abbeys Way |
| BURY | & 11D Cathedral town in Suffolk housing a ruined abbey (4,2,7) |
| HEREFORD | City on the River Wye - cattle breed (8) |
| BAKEWELL | Derbyshire town on the River Wye, noted for its eponymous pudding and tart (8) |
| ELGIN | A former royal burgh in the north (pop 25,000), the site of a ruined cathedral (5) |
| BEAUMARIS | Town in Anglesey that is the site of a ruined castle with some 300 arrow loops, built as part of Edward I's conquest of Wales (9) |
