| FEUDAL | Resembling the medieval way of life (6) |
| VISOR | Medieval way of saving face (5) |
| VASSAL | Medieval ways of saving face (6) |
| CANTAB | Coming from the medieval Latin name of the city, what means "of Cambridge"? (6) |
| VIOLIN | Also called a fiddle, this is bowed instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments: the medieval fiddle, the lira da braccio, and the rebec. (6) |
| ANGERS | French city that was the medieval seat of the Plantagenet dynasty (6) |
| ESTATE | Component of the medieval social order, such as the clergy or nobility (6) |
| ARMOUR | Rigid habit of the medieval ages (6) |
| BAKERS | Artisans once regulated by the medieval Assize of Bread (6) |
| MEDALS | Discs or "gongs" of merit whose name, derived from the medieval Latin for "denarii", refers to said prizes' similarity in appearance to coins (6) |
| BRUGES | City in Belgium that was the centre of the medieval European wool and cloth trade |
| CATHAY | What was the medieval European name for China? (6) |
| KNIGHT | Rival beheaded by Sir 1 in the medieval tale (5,6) |
| THRUSH | Nightingale and robin's cousin mavis, known collectively as a hermitage or a mutation, latterly due to the medieval belief that said throstle-cock shed and regrew new legs (6) |
| KESTREL | Staniel or windhover once of lowly status, thought worthy only of a knave in the medieval hierarchy of falconry, hence the title of Barry Hines's 1968 novel adapted by Ken Loach (7) |
| GUEST | Original married name of the English aristocrat, polyglot, polymath and mother of 10 children, nee Lady Charlotte Bertie, who is best known for her trailblazing translation of the medieval Welsh Mabin |
| LILLE | City of N France near the border with Belgium; the medieval capital of Flanders (5) |
| SHAWM | Double-reed woodwind instrument of the medieval and Renaissance period; a forerunner of the oboe (5) |
| EDINBURGH | This Scottish capital city's aesthetic and political heart still lies in its small historic core, comprising the Old Town and the New Town. The medieval Old Town and the Neoclassical New Town were des |
| FRUMENTY | Once prominent at Christmas, a type of spiced wheat porridge flavoured with cinnamon, currants, nutmeg, saffron, sugar and yolks that was the medieval forerunner of the modern Christmas pudding (8) |
