| LIERNES | Thought to be from "bind" or "clematis", the name given to the connecting decorative ribs forming star patterns in the stellar vaults of Gothic or medieval architecture (7) |
| ARCH | Curved architectural structure with a keystone or quoin; or, a frame for supporting rambling roses, honeysuckle or clematis (4) |
| LIERNE | Architectural rib forming part of a Gothic vault; or, municipality of Norway bordering Sweden (6) |
| STRING | Group forming street mob (6) |
| APRIL | Thought to be from "to open", in allusion to the opening of buds and blossoms in spring, name of the fourth month and one whose "showers may bring flowers", according to folklore (5) |
| PHO | Name, thought to be from French for "fire" or from the Cantonese dish "fun", for a Vietnamese noodle soup (3) |
| ARKOSE | Thought to be from Greek for "ancient", name of a pinkish or grey feldspathic sandstone forming the world's largest monolith, Uluru (6) |
| TURMOIL | Word, thought to be from French for "mill hopper", in allusion to its constant motion to and fro, for a state of agitation, chaos or commotion (7) |
| HARVEST | From the Old English meaning "autumn", the cutting and gathering of crops during the approach to the aforesaid season, or the name given to its corresponding full moon (7) |
| LUTES | Rubber seals for preserving jars; or, thought to be from Arabic "oud", meaning "wood", chordophones shaped like halved eggs/pears (5) |
| FRITILLARY | From the Latin for "dice-box", the liliaceous "chess flower" or "snake's-head" with delicate bell-shaped purple or white chequered blooms; or, the name given to several butterflies of similar pattern |
| FLOUR | From a homophonic word for a bloom, in the sense "the best part", the name given to "the finest quality of ground wheat", aka milled grain, for making bread, cakes or pastry (5) |
| THEELBOW | What is the name given to the narrowing of the course just before the finish line of the Aintree Gra |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| ISIS | The name given to the River Thames flowing through Oxford is the same as the Egyptian goddess of fer |
| TITHES | What was the name given to taxes payable to the church, abolished in the 19th century? (6) |
| VESPER | From the Latin for "evening" and root of the word "west", the name given to Venus at sunset (6) |
| COROLLA | From Latin for "little crown", the name given to the circlet or whorl of petals crowning a flower's calyx (7) |
| SATAN | From the Hebrew meaning "the enemy", what is one of the names given to the archangel that Michael fo |
