| GIRTHS | Old word for curtilages, enclosures or yards; courts or grassy quads within cloisters; or, fish-weirs in rivers (6) |
| GARTH | Dialect for a yard; a fish-weir; or, a courtyard within a cloister (5) |
| KIDDLE | An archaic fish-weir or a modern child-friendly search engine (6) |
| STOCKADES | Enclosures or barriers of stakes and timbers (9) |
| YARDS | Curtilages |
| COURTS | Curtilages |
| KIDDLES | Word from Anglo-Norman for fish-weirs consisting of dams or hedges of wattles, stakes and nets in rivers or streams (7) |
| HEDGES | Sceptres or wands of office; or, from "rods", thought from the idea of said poles as boundary markers, a word for borders, edges or margins, such as eaves, or grassy strips along roads (6) |
| SUITOR | Old-fashioned word for someone who courts or woos another person (6) |
| GARDENER | Word for one who tends an allotment, curtilage, herbaceous border, orchard, potager, rockery, shrubbery or other such hortus (8) |
| BANKS | Institutions such as Courts or Hoaxes; or, tiers of oars in galleys (5) |
| STAT | Rebounds or yards per catch, for example |
| CUBIC | Word before feet or yards |
| SHOETREE | Shaping block for courts or brogues (4,4) |
| NUNS | Sisters inhabiting convents or cloisters; blue tits; male smews; or, breeds of crested fancy pigeons (4) |
| MEASURES | Steps taken in feet or yards |
| EARLYAUGHTS | Genus of small perennial plants of the campanula family, having various common names including silvery dwarf harebell, wheel bell, rock bell or grassy bell (11) |
| SOD | Earthy epithet - or grassy earth (3) |
| LEA | Meadow or grassy field |
| EDRAIANTHUS | Genus of small perennial plants of the campanula family, having various common names including silvery dwarf harebell, wheel bell, rock bell or grassy bell (11) |
