| KEEPTO | ___ the path; notice often seen in rural or conservation areas (6) |
| ECOTOURISM | Form of sustainable travel to natural or conservation areas/countries where visitors are encouraged to "take only pictures and leave only footprints" (10) |
| AGRITOURISM | The provision of holidays in rural or farm settings (11) |
| ARCADIA | Song about stinker seen in rural idyll |
| CAUSE | Civil rights or conservation |
| BYWAYS | Word for private, restricted, rural or secluded sideroads, thus for minor/obscure areas of interest (6) |
| GALWAY | ___ Bay, intertidal conservation area in the west of Ireland (6) |
| IDYLLS | Short poems descriptive of rural or pastoral life (6) |
| CROOKS | ___' Hollow Conservation Area, near Hamilton |
| SACRED | Devoted leftist getting behind conservation area |
| FARM | Used as the backdrop in books such as Black Beauty, Charlotte's Web, Follyfoot or War Horse, a rural or agricultural tract of land, typically with a homestead (4) |
| NATURERESERVES | Treasurer mixed up with seven protected conservation areas (6,8) |
| WETLANDS | Bird conservation areas let out in sticks? (8) |
| COTTAGE | Sometimes described as "chocolatebox", a type of rural or rustic dwelling depicted in paintings by Vincent van Gogh or Helen Allingham (7) |
| IDYLL | Pictorial poem or picturesque scene depicting rural or rustic life (5) |
| FORMLETTER | College rejection notice, often (unscramble letters 2 to 7) |
| BLUEBELT | Zone created by marine conservation areas (4,4) |
| COLDSTREAM | Small town in the Borders (pop about 2,000), a conservation area (10) |
| GAMEWARDEN | Contest Andrew played, one working in conservation area (4,6) |
| ECLOGUE | Short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life (7) |
