| RIEVAULXABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery near Masham in North Yorkshire (8,5) |
| JERVAULXABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery near Masham in North Yorkshire (8,5) |
| FOUNTAINSABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery near Ripon founded in the 12th century (9,5) |
| ROCHEABBEY | 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Rotherham in South Yorkshire (5,5) |
| KIRKSTALLABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery four miles north-west of Leeds (9,5) |
| NEWBATTLE | Former Cistercian monastery in Midlothian, founded in 1140 (9) |
| MELROSE | Site of a ruined Cistercian abbey in the Borders (7) |
| EMMA | Forename of an actress who shares her surname with a rock and plays Abigail Masham in The Favourite and Bella Baxter in Poor Things (4) |
| STONE | Emma, actress who played Abigail Masham in The Favourite (5) |
| EMMASTONE | Actress who played Abigail Masham in The Favourite (4,5) |
| DUNDRENNANABBEY | Ruined monastery near Kirkcud bright (10,5) |
| PLUSCARDENABBEY | Monastery near Elgin (10,5) |
| SCROOP | Lord of Masham, a conspirator in Shakespeare's Henry V |
| WENSLEYDALE | Crumbly white cheese first produced by French Cistercian monks in North Yorkshire in 1150 (11) |
| RIEVAULX | Picturesque village in Yorkshire that is home to the ruined "Rye Valley" Cistercian abbey, founded in 1132 (8) |
| ANNE | With the favourites Lady Sarah Churchill and Lady Abigail Masham, Queen who lived and died at Kensington Palace and was the last Stuart monarch (4) |
| LORDSCROOP | The traitorous Henry of Masham, ringleader of the Southampton plot to murder King Henry V (4,6) |
| HAILES | Location, near Winchcombe in the Cotswolds, of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1246 (6) |
| STUDLEYROYAL | World Heritage Site in North Yorkshire developed around the ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey |
| OKACHEESE | Cistercian Abbey food creation in Quebec in 1893: 2 wds. |
