| MIDDLEENGLISH | 12th to 15th century language |
| DROMOND | Large fast sailing vessel of the 12th to 15th centuries (7) |
| MIDDLEAGESPREAD | 5th- to 15th-century widening? (6-3,6) |
| LATELATIN | 3rd- to 8th-century language |
| TUDOR | Architectural style dating back to fifteenth-century Britain |
| OLDFRENCH | Language spoken in France from about the 9th to 15th centuries (3,6) |
| GOTHIC | 12th- to 16th-century church architecture style (6) |
| FLEET | A London river, which gave its name to a city prison that was in use from the 12th to 19th centuries (5) |
| SAMURAI | Japanese warrior class, 12th to 19th centuries, effectively abolished with the end of feudalism (7) |
| ORSINI | Prominent aristocratic family in Rome from 12th to 18th centuries (6) |
| MIDDLELOWGERMAN | 12th-15th century European tongue |
| SIENA | This Italian city was originally an Etruscan settlement that grew to become ancient Roman city. Its cathedral was begun in the 12th century in the Romanesque style but transformed in the 13th century |
| MCI | Start of the 12th century, to Caesar |
| OLDSAXON | Language that evolved into Middle Low German in the 12th Century (3,5) |
| TEMPLAR | Knights ---, Catholic military order linked to the Crusades in the 12th Century (7) |
| BAYEUX | Town in northern France famous for a hanging dating back to 11th or 12th century (6) |
| TINTAGEL | Ruins of a 12th-century castle above Merlin's Cave in Cornwall; the legendary birthplace of King Arthur according to Geoffrey of Monmouth (8) |
| BARLEY | Village with 12th century Norman tower dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch (6) |
| CATHAR | Member of a 12th century and 13th century Christian sect in Provence who believed the material world was evil (6) |
| MCLI | Date around the middle of the 12th century |
