| TRACERY | Ornamental Gothic work (7) |
| POE | Writer of Gothic works |
| DRACULA | Stoker's gothic vampire (7) |
| MULLION | Vertical bar in a Gothic window (7) |
| ETHICAL | ... and the others must inspire Gothic endings (7) |
| REBECCA | Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier (1938) (7) |
| UNITING | Flat in Gothic church seemingly! (7) |
| GRAPHIC | Explicit music welcome among Gothic fringes (7) |
| ANTWERP | City in Belgium (pop 510,000), with a 14th century Gothic cathedral (7) |
| OTRANTO | The Castle of ___ , Gothic novel by Horace Walpole (7) |
| NATASHA | Actress who portrayed Mary Shelley in 1986 horror film Gothic (7,10) |
| UTRECHT | Dutch city (pop about 350,000), with a 14th century gothic cathedral (7) |
| SHELLEY | Mary, English novelist who wrote the 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein (7) |
| PIERCES | Secondary ribs in Gothic vaulting often forming intricate designs (7) |
| TREFOIL | Three-leaved clover, black medick or a plant in the Lotus genus such as bacon-and-eggs; or, an ornament resembling thus in heraldry or Gothic tracery (7) |
| WALPOLE | Horace -; author of The Castle of Otranto who lived at the Gothic revival villa Strawberry Hill (7) |
| FLEURON | Flower-like ornament employed in Gothic architecture or found at the centre of the face of a Corinthian abacus; or, a puff pastry garnish in the form of a crescent moon (7) |
| FOGHORN | Famous Gothic opera on frequently ignored warning signal (7) |
| SHADOWS | Dark _, US gothic soap opera of the 1960s and 70s (7) |
| ORVIETO | City in Umbria, Italy, noted for its Gothic cathedral (7) |