| BRENDAN | Saint, Irish abbot (7) |
| COLUMBA | Irish abbot and missionary traditionally credited with converting Scotland to Christianity (7) |
| IONA | Scottish island settled by an Irish abbot |
| STRIKE | Saint Irish king oddly keen to smite? |
| APPRISE | Notify primate about capital abbot originally left (7) |
| ALDHELM | West Saxon abbot of Malmesbury (639-709) (7) |
| RUSSETS | Abbot possibly accepting prepared apples (7) |
| TOBACCO | Heartless abbot rejects carbon copy from order and leaves for a smoke (7) |
| BARBARY | Carry abbot as ordered. District is seedy. (7,5) (see 21D) |
| PRELATE | High-ranking member of the Christian clergy such as a cardinal, bishop or abbot (7) |
| IDEFORD | My father died with nothing - he's buried in a village near Newton Abbot (7) |
| DAINTON | Summit and tunnel south-west of Newton Abbot (7) |
| TRUSSES | Abbot, maybe, blocks group in retreat getting framework (7) |
| BERNARD | --- of Clairvaux, French abbot and co-founder of the Knights Templar (7) |
| ANDOVER | Home of Phillips and Abbot Academies |
| LANGHAM | Chris ___, actor who played Roy Mallard in People Like Us and Hugh Abbot in The Thick of It |
| COAST | Carry abbot as ordered. District is seedy. (7,5) (see 7D) |
| SUGER | Advisor to both Louis VI and Louis VII whose supervision of the rebuilding of Saint-Denis as its abbot was key in the development of the Gothic architectural style (5) |
| SAINTBERNARD | French abbot who founded a monastery at Clairvaux in 1115 (5,7) |
| LOCHNESSMONSTER | Mythical creature first attested in writing by Adomnan, ninth Abbot of Iona, in his Life of Columba (c. 700 AD) (4,4,7) |
