| QUARTERSTAFF | Stout iron-tipped wooden pole about 6ft long formerly used in England as a weapon (12) |
| ANNEOFCLEVES | Queen of England as the fourth wife of Henry VIII, born in Dusseldorf (4,2,6) |
| LAMMAS | The first day of August, formerly observed in England as a harvest festival (6) |
| RICHARDOSMAN | TV game show host who is 6ft 7in tall |
| ASSEGAI | What slender iron-tipped wooden spear is used in southern Africa? (7) |
| ALPENSTOCK | Long iron-tipped staff traditionally used by shepherds in the Alps, a predecessor of the ice axe (10) |
| LELY | Best known for his portraits of silk-swathed ladies in Windsor Beauties, Dutch artist whose career was spent in England as painter to the Royal court (4) |
| HENRIETTA | French wife of King Charles I, known in England as Queen Mary (9) |
| BODYDOWN | Tear-shaped pole float, best used in 6ft+ of water (4-4) |
| CANALBOAT | In British transport, this is usually 6ft 10in wide and about 70ft long |
| NOVEL | A work of fiction by a Pole about love |
| TALLBOY | A young lad well over 6ft gets a chest of drawers (7) |
| GCSE | School leaving qualification used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (4) |
| ASSAGAI | Slender iron-tipped spear of hard wood, used by peoples of southern Africa (7) |
| RINGROAD | Call Pole about a bypass (4,4) |
| LOUDSPEAKER | Ask rude Pole about a PA (11) |
| DORSET | Pole about to join clique in the county (6) |
| FATHERTIME | 6ft 6in cast-iron weathervane at Lord's Cricket Ground, created in 1926 and currently located between the Mound and Tavern stands (6,4) |
| CORNICHE | Road on Riviera or in southwest England, as they say? (8) |
| MERCIA | Parisian appreciated a piece of England, as it were (6) |
