| GALE | Related to Old Norse meaning "mad, frantic, furious" (4) |
| EDDIC | Relating to old Norse verse |
| UPTHEWALL | Colloquial expression meaning mad or distracted (2,3,4) |
| MESHUGA | Yiddish word meaning mad or crazy (7) |
| CAST | From the Old Norse meaning "to throw", a toss of something such as dice, a fishing-line or a sounding lead; or, said distance thrown (4) |
| RACE | From the Old Norse meaning "current", a word originally for a rapid forward movement, later a channel or a contest of speed (4) |
| MANE | Related to Old High German for "necklace", a word for the encolure of a horse or the crest hair of a lion (4) |
| HAZE | Word, related to Old English for "grey", for mist; or, a blur/confusion characterised by a lack of clarity (4) |
| LERWICK | From the Old Norse meaning "bay of clay", the capital of the Shetland Islands (7) |
| SKERRY | Shetlandic and Orcadian word for a small island or reef derived from the Old Norse meaning "sea rock" (6) |
| GOWAN | Thought to be related to Old English for "marigold", Scottish dialect for a golden, white or yellow field flower, such as a daisy or an ox-eye (5) |
| FESTAL | Funny looking leaf lying across road is related to old celebration (6) |
| TRIASSIC | Time sorted out a crisis related to old age |
| EGGS | Related to Latin for "bird" and Old Norse for "incite", word for hens' shelly ova or "googies", recalled in a phrase meaning "urges on" or "encourages" (4) |
| ETON | She at last starts to teach Old Norse at the school (4) |
| WING | From the Old Norse "vngr", one of a bird's flight organs, once referred to as said creature's "feathers" (4) |
| YULE | From an Old Norse name for a 12-day pagan festival celebrated at the winter solstice, an Old English word for "December, January" and also for "Christmastide" (4) |
| ERIC | Male name derived from the old Norse "Eirikr", meaning 'sole ruler' or 'ever powerful" (4) |
| FOND | Old Norse or medieval term for foolish or credulous like a wally; or, currently, kindly disposed or doting, perhaps to the point of folly (4) |
| EDDA | Collection of Old Norse poetry (4) |
