| LORD | Nobleman or peer whose title derives from the Old English meaning "bread-keeper"; or, a dominant planet in astrology (4) |
| EASTISEAST | 1999 comedy film whose title derives from a line in a Rudyard Kipling poem (4,2,4) |
| MARSHAL | Word for an ostler or a king's farrier originally, later an officer in a royal household; a prison-keeper; or, a proctor's attendant or "bulldog" at Oxford University (7) |
| BEES | Honey-producing pollinators traditionally told of events such as the death of their keeper or a birth (4) |
| BEAUFORT | Duke of ____, peer whose family seat is Badminton House in Gloucestershire (8) |
| KIRKBY | Merseyside town in the borough of Knowsley; the name derives from the Old Norse for 'church' and 'village' (6) |
| ARGYLL | Region of western Scotland whose name derives from the Old Gaelic 'airer Goidel' |
| AVALON | Island of Arthurian legend whose name derives from the Old Welsh for "isle of apples" (6) |
| TADPOLE | From the Old English meaning "toad head", the larva or "pollywiggle" of a frog, newt, salamander or the first mentioned amphibian; or, a political hack other than Taper in Benjamin Disraeli's novel Co |
| KEEP | From the Old English meaning "to observe" or "compare", the donjon or tower at the heart of a medieval castle, used as a refuge (4) |
| WATCH | From the Old English meaning "to be or remain awake", a period of surveillance; a sailor's turn of duty; or, a timepiece for the wrist |
| HARVEST | From the Old English meaning "autumn", the cutting and gathering of crops during the approach to the aforesaid season, or the name given to its corresponding full moon (7) |
| GOSSIP | From the Old English meaning "godparent", a word for a close friend or one invited to attend a birth that later came to mean chitchat, idle talk or tittle-tattle (6) |
| ACRE | From the Old English meaning "open field", a word for a unit of land area that is etymologically related to the name of the fruit of the oak (4) |
| SPELL | From the Old English meaning "story, speech" or "narration", a word for a magic formula or incantation (5) |
| DAIRY | From the Old English meaning "kneader of bread", a building, farm or room where milk is processed or made into butter, cheese, cream, creme fraiche and other produce (5) |
| PLAY | From the Old English meaning "to exercise", "brisk movement" and related to the Middle Dutch "leap for joy, dance", a dramatic work for the stage; or, activity for amusement (4) |
| MONTH | From the Old English meaning "moon", each of the 12 divisions or lunations of the calendar year (5) |
| BELLIS | From the Latin meaning "beautiful, pretty", the genus of the flower whose common name "daisy" is thought to derive from the Old English for "day's eye" (6) |
| THINGS | From the Old English meaning "assembly" or "parliament", a word for affairs/matters in general; inanimate objects; table utensils; or, clothes and personal belongings (6) |
