| TRAILS | National -; group of longdistance footpaths including the Cotswold Way, Hadrian's Wall Path and Pennine Way (6) |
| TRAIL | Type of footpath through the countryside with long-distance examples including the Cotswold Way, Pennine Way, South West Coast Path and the Yorkshire Wolds Way (5) |
| TOWER | After broad way it's a folly on the Cotswold Way (5) |
| ONE | Start of longdistance dialing |
| TELEGRAPHIC | Box vividly detailed of longdistance communications (11) |
| COOKSON | Author of some 100 books including The Cinder Path and those in the Tilly Trotter trilogy (7) |
| ETHNIC | Relating to a race or national group of people (6) |
| LUNATICFRINGE | UNICEF girl ordered around national group of political extremists (7,6) |
| WALLSEND | Town on the north bank of the River Tyne at the end of Hadrian's Wall (8) |
| TUC | National group of workers' organisations (inits)(1,1,1) |
| STROUD | Market town and civil parish in Gloucestershire surrounded by the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| KEEPOFFTHEGRASS | Don't leave the path and stay away from the informer! (4,3,3,5) |
| TWOTIME | Lead up the garden path and overturn shed full of fibres |
| GREEN | Colour of the footpaths, bridleways and byways on OS Explorer maps (5) |
| ARROW | Symbol on any of the discs in the countryside waymarked yellow for footpaths or blue for bridleways (5) |
| BACKROADS | They're off the beaten path, and a hint to the circled letters |
| LEE | Author raised in the Cotswold village of Slad whose autobiographical trilogy includes Cider With Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (3) |
| CHIPPINGNORTON | Market town in the Cotswold Hills whose residents include Rebekah Brooks and Jeremy Clarkson |
| TRAILMIX | A hiker or rambler's traditionally home-made gorp or scroggin of assorted dried fruits, nuts, seeds and sweetmeats eaten as a calorific snack while tramping the abatures, footpaths, lanes, riverwalks |
| LANCELOT | Knight's path and destiny lying round front of castle |
