| WANTS | Was including the National Trust in people's needs (5) |
| HUMANISTIC | Person is getting spasm in becoming concerned with people's needs (10) |
| WALES | Was including the foreign principality (5) |
| SCAFELLPIKE | The summit of this Lakeland peak was donated to the National Trust in memory of local men who died in the First World War |
| OXBURGHHALL | 15th-century moated manor in Norfolk, granted to the National Trust in 1952 (7,4) |
| DETONATION | What's said to be owed by old people needs setting off |
| OCTOVIAHILL | Co-founder of the National Trust in 1895 (7,4) |
| ACORN | Depicted on the logo of the National Trust, the fruit or seed of the tree with the Latin name Quercus (5) |
| LUNDY | Owned by the National Trust and administered by the Landmark Trust, a granite island off the coast of north Devon (5) |
| CANNA | Small island in the Inner Hebrides, left to the National Trust for Scotland in 1981 (5) |
| DEISM | Belief in a God who doesn't intervene in people's lives |
| EVENT | It takes place the day before the National Trust finishes (5) |
| PASTS | Earlier periods in people's lives |
| ROLLS | Roles can be said to put bread in people's mouths |
| SHAWS | Corner owned by the National Trust (5) |
| BURNT | Rub up on the National Trust or it will be incinerated (5) |
| AGENT | Operative a long time with the National Trust (5) |
| DECADENT | After ten years National Trust in state of decline |
| NUMSKULLS | 'The -', cartoon strip in The Beano, the eponymous characters living in people's heads (9) |
| OAK | With leaves depicted on the logos of both the National Trust and the Woodland Trust, a deciduous acornbearing tree in the genus Quercus (3) |
