| RIEVAULXABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery in the North York Moors National Park (8,5) |
| ROSEBERRY | -- Topping, distinctive hill near Great Ayton in North York Moors National Park (9) |
| JERVAULXABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery near Leyburn in North Yorkshire (8,5) |
| LANGDALE | Forest in the North York Moors east of Saltergate (8) |
| TOPPING | Beg Repton Priory's ruins to form this distinctive hill in the North Yorks Moors (9,7) |
| EGTON | ___ Bridge, picturesque village on the North York Moors near Grosmont (5) |
| CARMINABURANA | Medieval Latin verse anthology found in a monastery in 1803, partly used in the most famous 20th-century cantata |
| FOUNTAINSABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery near Ripon founded in the 12th century (9,5) |
| NEWBATTLE | Former Cistercian monastery in Midlothian, founded in 1140 (9) |
| LANSING | Neighbourhood in the North York district of Toronto |
| MELROSE | Abbey that was the first Cistercian monastery in Scotland (7) |
| KIRKSTALLABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery four miles north-west of Leeds (9,5) |
| FYLINGDALES | Site, in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, of an early-warning radar station (11) |
| ROUND | ___ Hill, North York Moors highest point (5) |
| IONA | Island in the Hebrides where Saint Columba founded a monastery in the 6th Century (4) |
| TABULAR | Name of flat-topped hills on southern edge of North York Moors - a brutal formation (7) |
| BENEDICTINE | Liqueur made from a secret formula developed at a French monastery in the 16th century |
| LAMASERAI | Monastery in the morning surrounded by intense light - excellent |
| SHAOLIN | Historic Buddhist monastery in the Songshan mountains |
| ABBEY | Type of monastery such as the one on the island of Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, or the former Benedictine monastery in Cluny, Burgundy (5) |
