| SCROG | Scots or Northern English dialect for a broken branch, bushy place, crab-apple, crooked bush, low tree, scrubby wood, stump or other shrivelled, stunted or withered thing (5) |
| HAGS | Bird-cherries; Scots or northern dialect for hacks or hews; firm spots in bogs; soft places in moors; overhangs of peat; otherwise, a word for aged crones, foul furies, unsightly beldams or other such |
| CUMBRIA | Cold region of Italy or northern English county (7) |
| TEWIT | Northern English dialect for one of a "deceit" of birds also called a green plover, lapwing or pyewipe (5) |
| STOB | Broken branch |
| ASHETS | Scottish and Northern English dialect for large shallow oval dishes/ plates upon which to serve meat (6) |
| CLAY | Linked to English dialect for "sticky", word for a natural substance moulded and baked to make bricks, ceramics, cloam, pottery, tiles or other figuline articles; or, earth/mud generally (4) |
| COOKIE | From Dutch for "cake", an American word for what the English, Irish, Scots or Welsh call an Aberffraw, Bourbon, custard cream, ginger nut, Hobnob, Jammie Dodger, plain/cream bun or a shortbread, for e |
| RUNCH | Scots or dialect name for wild radish or charlock that can also mean a grinding or gnashing of the teeth (5) |
| SNICKET | A passageway between walls or fences, in Northern English dialect (7) |
| POUFFE | Scots or dialect word for blows, gusts, mild explosions, wafts or whiffs of air, dust, gunpowder, smoke or the like; shots; or, hairdressers' powder pads (6) |
| KIPES | English dialect word for osier baskets for capturing pickerels or other fish; or, woven containers as measures for produce (5) |
| NIFFYNAFFY | In Scottish and Northern English dialect, trifling or fastidious |
| WILDING | Word for a crab-apple tree, self-sown/seeded garden flower or other uncultivated plant growing naturally; an undomesticated animal; or, a restoration of nature (7) |
| DUMBLEDORES | Old onomatopoeic English dialect term mainly for buzzing or humming insects such as beetles, bumblebees or cockchafers; blunderers; or, dandelions (11) |
| CLOAM | From "mud", a south-west English dialect word for crocks, dishes, pots or Cornish ovens of earthenware or clay, collectively (5) |
| SPRIG | Scots or regional name for the little brown spadger commonly called a house sparrow (5) |
| HUBS | English dialect word for fireside shelves for heating pans originally, later the centres/naves of wheels; or, focal points of activities, discussions, places or anything else (4) |
| MASH | A brewer's mixture of crushed malt grains and hot water; a warm porridgelike bran feed for horses; a champ-like puree of butter, milk and potatoes; any other soft pulpy concoction; or, northern dialec |
| ECOZONE | Prairies or Northern Arctic or Atlantic Maritime or Taiga Shield ...each is an example of a what in Canada? |
