| MELROSE | - Abbey; founded by David I in 1136, Scotland's first Cistercian monastery, the resting place of Robert the Bruce's heart, repaired by Sir Walter Scott in 1822 (7) |
| RIEVAULXABBEY | First Cistercian monastery in the north of England, founded in 1132 (8,5) |
| ECO | Who wrote the mystery set in a medieval monastery, The Name of the Rose (1980) |
| NAME | Umberto Eco's historical mystery set in a 13th century monastery, The ... Of The Rose |
| YAHOO | Internet search engine founded by David Filo and Jerry Yang in 1995 |
| ABBEY | Melrose ----- was founded in 1136 (5) |
| DGC | Label founded by David Geffen |
| JARROW | English port in whose monastery the Venerable Bede lived and died |
| TUMBLR | Social networking site founded by David Karp |
| ARARAT | Mountain in Turkey described in the Bible as the resting-place of Noah's Ark (6) |
| VEZELAY | This French village lies on a hill on the left bank of the Cure River. Its history is tied to its Benedictine abbey, founded in the 9th century. The abbey attracted pilgrims because the supposed remai |
| MOUNT | Compound volcano in eastern Turkey traditionally considered the resting place of Noah's Ark (5,6) |
| IONA | Island in the Inner Hebrides: site of an abbey founded by St Columba (4) |
| TINTERN | Cistercian abbey founded in 1131 on the Welsh bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire (7) |
| HAILES | Location, near Winchcombe in the Cotswolds, of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1246 (6) |
| OCEANBED | The resting place of many an old wreck? (5,3) |
| LAIR | The resting place of wild animals (4) |
| GEOFFREY | Cleric from 12 who wrote The History of the Kings of Britain in about 1136 (8) |
| GUINEVERE | (GKN) Wife of the legendary King Arthur, first appearing in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Begum Britanniae (c. 1136) (9) |
| GRAVEL | Small stones left at the end of the resting place (6) |
