| ELEGY | Reflective poem written for instance in a cathedral city (5) |
| TOHELEN | Edgar Allan Poe poem written for a woman named Jane, despite its title |
| EMILY | Name a motorway in a cathedral city (5) |
| WELLS | Mineral springs in a cathedral city (5) |
| BEGET | To cause, for instance, in a wager (5) |
| ELIOT | Nicknamed "possum" by fellow poet Ezra Pound, the author of a series of "cat poems", written for his godchildren, that later formed the basis of a record-breaking musical (5) |
| ELGIN | The administrative town for Moray in Scotland, once recognised as a cathedral city (5) |
| RIPON | A cathedral city in northern England (pop about 17,000) (5) |
| SARUM | Initially such a strange old name for a cathedral city |
| LASER | In a cathedral a service requires concentration (5) |
| ORGAN | Groan about a large instrument in a cathedral (5) |
| EEL | A catadromous snig which is glass-like during its stage as an elver and formerly prevalent in a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (3) |
| EARLY | Young artist raised in a cathedral (5) |
| SLYPE | Covered passageway between the transept and chapter in a cathedral (5) |
| CANON | General rule observed in a cathedral (5) |
| YORICK | One hundred in a cathedral city, said to be poor (6) |
| ACUTELY | Pointedly snub in a cathedral city |
| LEGITIMATELY | Run away? I’m in a cathedral city — justifiably! |
| APSES | Quartet in a cathedral, maybe |
| LEGACY | A gift, for instance, in a seethrough cover (6) |
