| THORP | Old word for a hamlet or village that survives in the name of places including Earl Spencer's ancestral estate in Northamptonshire (5) |
| VRIL | Edward Bulwer-Lytton's word for life force or energy in The Coming Race, that survives in the name of a brand of meat extract, used for beef tea (4) |
| ISLE | Word for an eyot, key, inch or skerry, found in the names of places including Great Britain's Arran, Man, Mull, Sheppey, Skye and Wight (4) |
| TEA | With around 3,000 varieties including Earl Grey, English breakfast and Darjeeling, a beverage derived from the leaves of a species of camellia (3) |
| DIANA | Earl Spencer's late daughter (5) |
| DRAGOON | A mounted, armed infantryman: the term survives in the names of certain regiments (7) |
| DALE | Word used in some valley names of places in Yorkshire and Scotland (4) |
| CITES | Names of places announced (5) |
| WICK | Old or dialect word for a creek, farm, hamlet or village; or, a cord that supplies fuel to a candle or oil lamp's flame by capillary action (4) |
| SILK | With a rustling sound described as "frou-frou", textile woven or made in the process of sericulture in places including Karnataka in India, Suzhou in China and Sudbury in England (4) |
| BEOWULF | Old English heroic epic poem that survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex (7) |
| COPTIC | The ancient language of the Copts of Egypt that survives only in the Coptic Church (6) |
| PUFFIN | Auk or "sea parrot" inhabiting places including the Farne Islands and Lundy that is one of the birds after which a crossing is named (6) |
| EMBROIDERY | Decorative needlework such as bargello or opus anglicanum, or the needlepoint created at Althorp by Diana, Princess of Wales' grandfather, the 7th Earl Spencer (10) |
| FETE | Word for a feast day, festival of a saint, gala, holiday or village fair (4) |
| PARISH | A town or village having its own church and pastor/priest; its people or community; or, a district for administration purposes (6) |
| THELISTENER | A BBC magazine until 1991 - its famously difficult crossword survives in Saturday editions of The Times |
| WYE | River flowing through or past places including the "town of books" Hay, Symonds Yat and Tintern (3) |
| THURDON | Dorothy briefly lived in Hurn before she moved to a hamlet in the parish of Kilkhampton in Cornwall (7) |
| MILESTONE | Word for a waymarker/guidepost indicating distances to the nearest town or village, also used figuratively to describe a significant life event (9) |
