| CUSTOM | Tradition/practice of a society such as chanoyu or other tea ceremony, cheese-rolling, Jack-in-the-green, maypole-dancing or wife-carrying (6) |
| GLOUCESTER | Founded by the Romans as Glevum, a cathedral city in the Cotswolds, home to an annual cheese-rolling event (10) |
| SWAN | Bird associated with the tradition, practice or ceremony of upping (4) |
| GIUSEPPE | Marco Palmieri's brother in the G & S operetta The Gondoliers (8) |
| COBRA | Evil organization in the G.I. Joe universe |
| TAKABLE | See missing blended black tea exposed to other tea leaves? (7) |
| LTS | Falcon and Stone in the G.I. Joe franchise: Abbr. |
| GLOUCESTERSHIRE | English county associated with an annual cheese rolling event (15) |
| EARTOTHEGROUND | Listening to reason after other tea was brewed (3,2,3,6) |
| UTOPIAN | Perfect sort of society, such as the one described by Sir Thomas More |
| TISSOT | Artist who moved from Paris to London where he painted scenes of Victorian high society such as Lilacs, |
| INFRASTRUCTURE | Basic services for society such as power, transport, etc |
| MYTHUS | Latin rendering of a Greek word for a symbolical or traditional story; a body of fables, folk tales or legends; the underlying belief system of a society expressed allegorically through art, drama or |
| PARADIGM | A conceptual model in the theory or practice of a particular science or discipline (8) |
| GREENTEA | Beverage such as dragon well, hyson, gunpowder, matcha or sencha, traditionally prepared in the ceremony chanoyu (5,3) |
| ETUDE | A piece of music for the practice of a point of technique? (5) |
| TRADE | The regular practice of a business; or, buying and selling in this (5) |
| ORANGEMAN | A member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold the Protestant religion (9) |
| TEABOWL | Piece of pottery that might be used in a chanoyu in Japan (7) |
| ASTRAL | Is the Royal Astronomical Society such a body? (6) |
