| ALDHELM | Seventh century abbot of Malmesbury Abbey and writer and scholar of Latin poetry (7) |
| MENDEL | 19th-century abbot and scientist |
| CREATIVE | Hawken loves the interaction between science, techno geeks, and writers and ... minds. (8) |
| BLUMENFELD | Yorick ********** , late US writer and scholar of futurology (10) |
| OVID | Some provided source of Latin poetry |
| BEDE | Monk, author and scholar, born 673 AD, "The Father of English History" (4) |
| ERASMUS | Dutch philosopher and scholar of the 15th and 16th centuries (7) |
| FILANDS | This leading novelist from Finland has a son who lives in a tiny place near Malmesbury (7) |
| WEBSTER | American scholar of linguistics, internet domain doesn't need one, right? (7) |
| ISIDORE | ___ of Seville, the "last scholar of the ancient world" |
| STUDENT | Scholar of French in a spectacular trick (7) |
| ASLEEP | I'd turned pale in the centre of Malmesbury, and collapsed and was no longer fully conscious (6) |
| SKEIN | I saw a flock of geese flying around in the middle of Malmesbury at the weekend (5) |
| CICERO | Statesman, orator and scholar of ancient Rome (106-43 BC) formerly known in English as Tully (6) |
| PETRARCH | Italian love poet and scholar of classical antiquity, born in 1304 (8) |
| UNREASON | The Abbot of ___, Scottish equivalent of England's Lord of Misrule |
| EZRA | Jewish priest and scholar of Biblical times |
| LOCHNESSMONSTER | Mythical creature first attested in writing by Adomnan, ninth Abbot of Iona, in his Life of Columba (c. 700 AD) (4,4,7) |
| OBSESS | I constantly worry about my boss - the way he drives around the centre of Malmesbury, he's going to have an accident! (6) |
| AENEID | A woman absorbing English and Latin poetry |
