| LOAF | Word from the Old English for bread that has come to mean a baked quantity of the aforesaid food (4) |
| DUSK | Word, from the Old English "dox" for "dark-haired" or "swarthy", for the period of gloaming or glooming crepuscular twilight directly following sunset (4) |
| BOOK | From the Old English for "beech", a bibliophilic item printed with a story, poem etc, such as A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Chimes, Little Women or A Visit from St. Nicholas (4) |
| SEED | From the Old English for "sow", a word for a plant ovule; clover/grass grown from such; sown land; a first principle; origin; or, offspring (4) |
| RAKE | From the Old English for "heap up", a gardening tool for gathering autumn leaves or for smoothing soil; a person of thin stature, comparable to said implement; or, a debauchee or roue, such as Hogarth |
| MAIN | From the Old English for "strength", a word for power or force; the chief part; a principal cable, duct or pipe; or, the high sea or open ocean (4) |
| COTERIE | A clan of prairie dogs; or, a French word, originally for a number of peasants holding land jointly from a lord, that has come to mean an exclusive circle or clique (7) |
| CROP | From the Old English for "flower- head, ear of corn", a cultivated plant on a large scale collectively; or, a season's harvest, vintage or yield (4) |
| DYES | From the Old English for "colours", stains that turn whites into brights or hair, perhaps from dark to fair (4) |
| NECTAR | Word originally for the gods' drink of eternal life in mythology that has come to mean essence collected from flowers by pollinators including bees that forms the basis of honey (6) |
| MEAL | The edible part of any grain; or, from the Old English for "measure" or "set time", breakfast, luncheon, supper or any other regular occasion when food is eaten (4) |
| TRUG | From the Old English for "boat-shaped", a basket for carrying garden flowers, fruit and vegetables (4) |
| SCOP | From the Old English for "jester" or "one who mocks", word for an Anglo-Saxon bard, minstrel or poet (4) |
| COSSET | Old word for a "cottage-dweller", such as a hand-reared lamb or cade, that has come to mean to featherbed, pamper, pet, indulge, mollycoddle or wait upon as if a veritable maid (6) |
| MOSS | From the Old English for "bog, swamp", a primitive green flowerless bryophyte, such as the baby tooth, haircap, knight's plume, pincushion or shiny seductive species (4) |
| LOFT | From the Old English for "air, sky", an attic, haymow, pigeon shed or other raised place or upper room; or, elevation imparted to a golf ball (4) |
| CAKEWALK | A strutting dance popular in the 19th century whose name has come to mean a name has come to mean a very easy task (8) |
| SAGA | Word from the Old Norse for "thing said" |
| SHEEN | Word, from the Old English for "beautiful" and related to the Old Norse for "white horse", for lustre; or, glistening or splendid attire (5) |
| PITA | Bread that has a pocket |
