| HEDGES | Botanical borders forming part of the British countryside or topiarian mazes (6) |
| HEDGEROW | Botanical border forming part of the landscape of the countryside, rich in honeysuckle, dog roses and apple-scented sweetbrier in June (8) |
| HEMS | Borders forming mesh (4) |
| NORMAN | Forename of an artist whose cartoons chronicling the antics of the British countryside notably feature Pony Club girls and their characteristically rotund "Thelwell" Shetland ponies (6) |
| ANGELS | Quivering arbors of the British countryside, whose Latin name literally means "trembling poplar" (6) |
| SPRAWL | A relaxed/ungainly slouching or lounging position; the haphazard growth of a town or city into adjoining countryside; or, any untidy mass (6) |
| ELM | English -; a once common species of tree forming part of the landscape of the British countryside, Ulmus procera (3) |
| TUVALU | Polynesian country that formed part of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from 1916 to 1976 (6) |
| LIZARD | The _, Cornish peninsula, southernmost part of the British mainland (6) |
| SHABBY | - chic; eclectic style of interior design combining distressed furniture, cottage, countryside or vintage styles, antiques and neutral or pastel colours (6) |
| NATURE | Phenomena including plant and animal life as distinct from human creations; unspoiled scenery or countryside; or, course of life (6) |
| HENLEY | - Royal Regatta; rowing event held annually on the Thames which forms part of the British Season (6) |
| EMPIRE | Before Independence, Guyana was a part of the British (6) |
| SCOTIA | Part of the British Isles, poetically |
| REDGROUSE | Heather-eating plump moorfowl that is the primary target of sporting guns during the British countryside ritual of the "Glorious Twelfth" (3,6) |
| ECZEMA | Complaint the City maze's somewhat tricky (6) |
| BEDAZE | Confuse and upset little Deborah with boundless mazes (6) |
| DEER | With six species living wildly in the British countryside including red, roe or fallow, an animal depicted on the flags of Berkshire, Hertfordshire or Exmoor (4) |
| ADMIRAL | Red -; feeding on buddleia and rotting orchard fruit, a butterfly that is a common feature of the British countryside despite being a seasonal migrant (7) |
| PHEASANT | Any one of a "bouquet" or "nye" of gallinaceous game fowls hunted seasonally from October 1 to February 1, ubiquitous in the British countryside but native to Asia (8) |
