| SWITHIN | Saxon bishop of Winchester whose anger at being exhumed is said to have caused continual rain for 40 days and 40 nights (either spelling) (7) |
| STSWITHINS | Day on which, according to a rhyme, if there is rain, it will then rain for 40 days (2,8) |
| TEEMS | Rains for 40 days |
| BEDEVILLED | Caused continual trouble to (someone) |
| NAGGED | Pestered with demands; caused continual worry |
| ICEBERG | What is said to have caused the sinking of the Titanic (7) |
| FIRE | Mrs. O'Leary's cow is said to have caused one |
| DYSPEPSIA | Pepys said to have caused indigestion! (9) |
| STSWITHIN | Former bishop of Winchester, England, whose feast day is July 15 (2,7) |
| CORAL | Global warming is thought to have caused bleaching of this reef material |
| PENNY | _ Branning, was wrongly believed to have caused the crush at Peggy's in Walford (5) |
| ASP | Small viper supposed to have caused the death of Cleopatra (3) |
| HENRYBEAUFORT | English clergyman, Bishop of Winchester in Shakespeare's King Henry VI Part I (5,8) |
| TUBER | What a brute to have caused such a swelling! (5) |
| YORICK | "Fellow of infinite jest" whose skull is exhumed in Hamlet (6) |
| DOMESDAYBOOK | Record of a survey of England also known as the Book of Winchester that was completed in 1086 (8,4) |
| ANDOVER | Hampshire town on the River Anton, west of Basingstoke and northwest of the city of Winchester (7) |
| RESENT | Feel anger at being dispatched again (6) |
| HEIRESS | Top Nazi swallowed anger at being next in line (7) |
| MOORAGE | Cry with anger at being tied up (7) |
