| FETES | Village or rural extravaganzas for fundraising by means of ferret racing, raffles, coconut shies, cake stalls, quoits and other events/games (5) |
| RETRACING | Going back, over some ferret racing (9) |
| ZIEGFELDFILLIES | Florenz' extravaganza for horses? |
| FETE | Traditional village celebration with fundraising activities including coconut shies, raffles, cake stalls, tombolas ... (4) |
| WICK | Dialect for a creek, dairy farm, hamlet or village; or, related to "roll of lint, yarn", a long twist of cotton fibres by which a candle or lamp's flame is fed or fuelled with beeswax, oil or tallow ( |
| BUSINESS | A group of ferrets; or, from the Old English for "anxiety", a word whose early sense was used to mean a state of being fully occupied, later commerce, industry or trade (8) |
| LOGCABIN | Rustic wooden dwelling similar to a ski lodge or chalet used for woodland or rural retreats in the Scottish countryside, for example (3,5) |
| OUTFITTER | Shop or person selling kit/clothing for countryside sports or rural life (9) |
| STUN | Coconut shies may come back in to amaze you (4) |
| BARN | Farm or rural building used by the owl Tyto alba as a nesting place (4) |
| TELETHON | Fundraising extravaganzas of the 1970s and 80s (8) |
| MINSTREL | Travelling from village to village or employed by a royal court, a wandering medieval musician or troubadour (8) |
| BOOKOFTICKETS | Charge old figurehead close to those types being punched for fundraising (4,2,7) |
| ROSEWATER | Scent from the bottom passage of ferret awes orang-utan (9) |
| TWEEDY | Of a robust conservative or rural character |
| PASTORAL | Depicting or relating to the countryside or rural life (8) |
| SLEEPY | Relating to "somnus", a word for drowsy or somnolent; inducing slumber; non-buzzing, quiet or sequestered, as in a little town/village; or, overripe and unjuicy, as in a pear (6) |
| RAGTIME | College date for fundraising in 1ac (7) |
| WEASELWOODS | Forest full of ferret relatives? |
| REGRETFUL | Sorry sort of ferret to lug about! (9) |
