| FAIRYRING | A circle of dark, luxuriant vegetation in grassy ground corresponding to the edge of an underground fungal mycelium, the subject of folklore (5,4) |
| LAUNCELOT | Sir, member of circle of dark ages and engine class 30455 (9) |
| SABLE | Dark luxuriant fur |
| LUSH | Luxuriant (vegetation) |
| SECOND | Unit of time defined as "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom" (6) |
| RHONEALPES | Region of E France rising to the edge of the Massif Central in the west and the French Alps in the e |
| HOCK | Joint in the hind leg of a quadruped between the knee and fetlock, corresponding to the human ankle (4) |
| GOLLUM | Skinny creature living on an island in the middle of an underground lake in The Hobbit--- (6) |
| OASIS | Foam-like material used by florists; an area of vegetation in a desert; or, a rock band formed by two brothers in Manchester in 1991 (5) |
| NIGHT | Close to the edge of a shot in the dark (5) |
| NIP | A chilly or frosty quality; the pinch of biting cold; damage to the edges of tender plants by said frost; or, a small dram of spirits (3) |
| PULLOVER | Move to the edge of the road to get a garment (8) |
| STY | An inflammation of the edge of an eyelid; pen for swine (3) |
| RADIUS | Line from the centre to the edge of a circle (6) |
| RADII | Lines from the centre to the edge of a circle (5) |
| OXFORD | City whose 922-year-old university hosts an annual tortoise fair where its colleges race their testudinal pets to the edge of a lettuce circle (6) |
| ONTHENEARSIDE | Inclined to be stingy closer to the edge of the road? (2,3,4,4) |
| ERINYES | Depicted in William-Adolphe Bouguereau's Orestes Pursued by the Furies, the collective name for the Greek deities corresponding to the Roman Dirae (7) |
| STIGMATA | Marks, sores or sensations of pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus |
| ASIAMINOR | Region of the ancient world, roughly corresponding to the present-day Turkish peninsula of Anatolia (4,5) |
