| NEB | Scottish and Northern English word for a nose (3) |
| SNITCH | Slang word for a nose; or, a canary, mole, rat, squeaker, squealer, stag, stool pigeon or other characteristically nosy nark or snout (6) |
| NEEPS | Scottish and northern English word for turnips that influenced the naming of parsnips |
| BLUE | Colour whose name derives from the Scottish and northern English word for the bilberry (4) |
| NEEP | A Scots and northern English word for a turnip, which influenced the name of the parsnip (4) |
| LEA | Old English word for a meadow; or, a variable unit of length for yarn (3) |
| EWE | People of Ghana, Togo and Benin (also the English word for a female sheep) (3) |
| HAM | Meaty-sounding ending of many Norfolk place-names that is derived from the Old English word for a homestead (3) |
| BECK | Northern English word for a stream, especially a swiftly flowing one (4) |
| GOWAN | Scottish and Northern English name for the wild daisy |
| ASHETS | Scottish and Northern English dialect for large shallow oval dishes/ plates upon which to serve meat (6) |
| NIFFYNAFFY | In Scottish and Northern English dialect, trifling or fastidious |
| YEL | Scottish and dialect word meaning to hiccup or belch (3) |
| ESK | Two Scottish and two English rivers (3) |
| DRY | English word for unsweetened brut, sack, sec or trocken wine (3) |
| ORE | Word derived from the Old English words for "unworked metal" and "copper" |
| AWE | Old English word for dread or terror that now means amazement, astonishment, respect or wonder (3) |
| SHE | English word for "elle" |
| DENE | Old English word for a wooded valley, or, dialect for a sandy tract (4) |
| KNAVE | Old English word for a boy ; or, another word for the jack in cards (5) |
