| TRENCHER | Wooden plate and treen spread around church by rector (8) |
| DISCONCERTINGLY | Record being played at church by rector causing a sensation, in off-putting way (15) |
| ACETYLENE | Gas neatly flowing around church by the end (9) |
| OBSCENE | Dirty bones spread around church (7) |
| RHETORIC | Oratory demonstrated by rector, I suspect, capturing hearts (8) |
| PAMPHLET | Tract's moving plate, and speed across it (8) |
| PRETEENS | It's all arranged: my son, who lives near Portishead, is going to visit his three nieces in Treen -- they are all between the ages of 9 and 12 (8) |
| TENDERLY | When this lady, who lives in Treen, lost her two parents, she needed treating very gently and lovingly (8) |
| PLACEMAT | Rectangular item underneath a plate and glass: 2 wds. |
| POTTERNE | I had an apartment right next to the post office in Treen before I moved to this village near Worton (8) |
| FLATWARE | Term for crockery such as plates and sauoers (8) |
| CROCKERY | Plates and cups (8) |
| THEMEKON | Treen leader who was the arch-enemy of British comic book character Dan Dare (3,5) |
| ADHERENT | Fan had treen transported |
| DISHSOAP | Cleanser for plates and such: 2 wds. |
| VESTRY | Something worn by rector over year in room by church (6) |
| BATTERY | A device that has a cathode, or positive plate, and an anode, or negative plate; these electrodes must be separated by and are often immersed in an electrolyte that allows ions to pass between the ele |
| PASTOR | A post reformed by rector and priest (6) |
| RATCH | Toothed wheel found by rector at church (5) |
| IDLERS | Led around by rector feeding island's layabouts (6) |
