| IDRIS | Name of the medieval Welsh giant after whom a mountain was named (5) |
| GUEST | Original married name of the English aristocrat, polyglot, polymath and mother of 10 children, nee Lady Charlotte Bertie, who is best known for her trailblazing translation of the medieval Welsh Mabin |
| ITALIAN | European boxer punches giant after wiping brow (7) |
| UNDREAMT | Defile under a mountain was not even considered (8) |
| UTE | People for whom a mountain state is named |
| INTERPOSE | Put in chasing group following Italian giants after small loss |
| SHAWM | Double-reed woodwind instrument of the medieval and Renaissance period; a forerunner of the oboe (5) |
| ROSES | Wars of the -, medieval conflict over royal succession (5) |
| RIVER | It was deep when the mountain was high in the Ike & Tina Turner classic |
| EIGER | The north face of which Swiss mountain was first climbed in 1938? (5) |
| ANNIE | The film Brokeback Mountain was based on a short story written by E ... Proulx |
| BANFF | The -- National Park in the Rocky Mountains was Canada's first (5) |
| DYFED | Medieval Welsh kingdom and now a preserved county with its headquarters in Carmarthen |
| THYME | Herb whose nectar collected by bees on the slopes of Hymettus mountains was used for honey in antiquity (5) |
| LILLE | City of N France near the border with Belgium; the medieval capital of Flanders (5) |
| BRUIN | Name for a bear in children's stories, originating in the medieval epic Reynard The Fox; Dutch, 'brown' (5) |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| WHORL | Whether a coil, convolution, spiral or verticil in a corolla, fingerprint or seashell, it is an etymological spin-off from the medieval "flywheel" (5) |
| BRUGES | City in Belgium that was the centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade |
| CRUSADE | One of the medieval military expeditions to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims (7) |
