| SAXON | Old English dialect |
| ANGLIAN | Old English dialect |
| WESTSAXON | Wife Tessa, confused, wrong about Old English dialect (4,5) |
| DUMBLEDORES | Old onomatopoeic English dialect term mainly for buzzing or humming insects such as beetles, bumblebees or cockchafers; blunderers; or, dandelions (11) |
| BAIRNS | Children, in English dialect |
| LALLANS | English dialect of the Scottish Lowlands |
| REDE | Counsel, in English dialect |
| SCOUSE | English dialect some Scots use? (6) |
| BABOO | English dialect of India |
| YAFFLE | English dialect name for a green woodpecker |
| BURR | English dialect sound - notorious US vice-president, charged with treason (4) |
| CAJUN | English dialect in which "food shopping" is "makin' groceries" |
| GULLAH | Use this English dialect to deceive a husband? (6) |
| TEWIT | Northern English dialect for one of a "deceit" of birds also called a green plover, lapwing or pyewipe (5) |
| NIFFYNAFFY | In Scottish and Northern English dialect, trifling or fastidious |
| ASHETS | Scottish and Northern English dialect for large shallow oval dishes/ plates upon which to serve meat (6) |
| HUBS | English dialect word for fireside shelves for heating pans originally, later the centres/naves of wheels; or, focal points of activities, discussions, places or anything else (4) |
| CLAY | Linked to English dialect for "sticky", word for a natural substance moulded and baked to make bricks, ceramics, cloam, pottery, tiles or other figuline articles; or, earth/mud generally (4) |
| KIPES | English dialect word for osier baskets for capturing pickerels or other fish; or, woven containers as measures for produce (5) |
| CLOAM | From "mud", a south-west English dialect word for crocks, dishes, pots or Cornish ovens of earthenware or clay, collectively (5) |
