| MELROSE | Town in the Scottish Borders with a Cistercian abbey that was repaired by Sir Walter Scott in 1822 (7) |
| TINTERN | Welsh village with a Cistercian abbey (7) |
| JEDBURGH | Town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders with an abbey that was founded in 1147 |
| RAEBURN | Sir Henry, Scottish painter whose portraits include that of Sir Walter Scott in 1822 (7) |
| HENRYRAEBURN | Scottish painter whose portraits include that of Sir Walter Scott in 1822 (5,7) |
| TSELIOT | He's commemorated by a stone at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey that reads "the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living" |
| HAILES | Location, near Winchcombe in the Cotswolds, of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1246 (6) |
| PEEBLES | Town in the Scottish Borders. that is the birthplace of singer-songwriter Eric Bogle |
| KELSO | Market town in the Scottish Borders at the confluence of the Rivers Teviot and Tweed (5) |
| TWEED | River in the Scottish Borders with tributaries or "waters" including Blackadder, Eden and Gala (5) |
| RIEVAULX | Picturesque village in Yorkshire that is home to the ruined "Rye Valley" Cistercian abbey, founded in 1132 (8) |
| COLDSTREAM | A burgh in the Scottish Borders where the British Army's oldest continuously serving regiment was originally raised (10) |
| IVANHOE | Historical novel by Sir Walter Scott in three volumes (1819) |
| HAWICK | Town in the Scottish Borders whose rugby team plays at Mansfield Park (6) |
| EXITSIGN | One of those shining in The Abbey that is way-out is Mark Last? Get off the stage! (4,4) |
| GODSTOW | In Oxfordshire, the site of a ruined abbey that housed an order of Benedictine nuns (7) |
| SCONE | Town in Perth and Kinross housing a famous Palace and historic Abbey that both bear its name (5) |
| ATANGLEDWEB | Name for a complex situation, coined by Walter Scott in his epic poem Marmion |
| SCOTT | Author of the Waverley novels who lived at Abbotsford in the Scottish Borders and married on Christmas Eve in 1797 (5) |
| PRIEST | The spire was repaired at the time for the reverend (6) |
