| GUINEAPIGS | Trialists from the old English capital joining the Chester Whites (6,4) |
| NUTS | Head cases on both sides of Nuremburg trialists (4) |
| STY | Chester White's pad |
| LIQUIDATED | Rubbed out strange detail about English capital (10) |
| ENTERPRISE | Boldness that printers used to join English capitals (10) |
| 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) |
| BELLIS | From the Latin meaning "beautiful, pretty", the genus of the flower whose common name "daisy" is thought to derive from the Old English for "day's eye" (6) |
| HOLLY | Essentially from the Old English for "the prickly one", ivy's red-berried partner hung in cottage eaves to frighten off ill spirits and guard the home throughout the solstice nights, 'til the return o |
| HERALD | The Chester _, newspaper that 7A wanted to write about The Dog (6) |
| NOYESFLUDDE | 1958 opera by Benjamin Britten adapted from the Chester miracle play (5,6) |
| NEWS | What the Chester Herald delivers to the people of Hollyoaks Village (4) |
| ACRE | From the Old English meaning "open field", a word for a unit of land area that is etymologically related to the name of the fruit of the oak (4) |
| NANCY | __ Osborne, woman who has written for the Chester Herald (5) |
| ELLA | Hollyoaks village resident who was trapped in the Chester catacombs with youngster Charlie Dean (4) |
| DEE | ___ Valley University Hospital, where the Chester locals go for medical emergencies (3) |
| SCOTT | ___ Drinkwell, sang at the Chester election (5) |
| VALLEY | Location of the Chester hospital where Misbah Maalik works (3,6) |
| PIGGY | Boy in 29 2 like Chester White? |
| HAWS | From the Old English meaning "hedge", fruits of the tree Crataegus that form part of the countryside's seasonal bounty with brambles, rosehips, elderberries and sloes (4) |
| MONTH | From the Old English meaning "moon", each of the 12 divisions or lunations of the calendar year (5) |
