| MONTE | Rocky hill of central Italy on which the principal abbey of the Benedictines is located (5,7) |
| CASSINO | Rocky hill of central Italy on which the principal abbey of the Benedictines is located (5,7) |
| TUSCANY | A region of central Italy, on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian Seas (7) |
| DUNSINANE | Hill of central Scotland to which 'Great Birnam wood' came in Shakespeare's Macbeth (1606) |
| TOR | Rocky hill of e.g. Dartmoor (3) |
| WATERSHIPDOWN | Tale in which the principal characters speak Lapine |
| HEADLIGHT | By which the principal driver sees? (9) |
| CISTERCIAN | A monk or nun of an order founded in 1098 as a stricter form of the Benedictines (10) |
| MONK | Member of the Benedictines |
| INORDER | Ready to be a member of the Benedictines (2,5) |
| EDGAR | Grade annoyed the Saxon King who gave the patronage of Brancaster Church to the Abbey of Ramsey (5) |
| PISA | City in Tuscany, west central Italy, on the River Arno near the Ligurian Sea (4) |
| SANMARINO | Small republic situated on the slopes of Mount Titano, on the Adriatic side of central Italy. This country is landlocked and surrounded by Italy. (3,6) |
| LAZIO | Region of W. central Italy on the Tyrrhenian Sea (5) |
| ANCONA | Small city and seaport in central Italy on the Adriatic Sea (6) |
| ABBOT | The superior of an abbey of monks. (5) |
| LYDGATE | Poet and monk of the Benedictine abbey of Bury St |
| RELIGIOUSORDER | Pious command from the Benedictines perhaps (9,5) |
| APENNINES | Mountain range of central Italy extending from the Ligurian Alps in the north-west to the Strait of Messina in the south (9) |
| DOM | Title prefixed to the names of Roman Catholic dignitaries, Benedictines and Catrhusian monks |
