| ALCAZAR | 14th century Moorish palace in Seville, built for Peter of Castile (7) |
| ALHAMBRA | 13th-century Moorish palace near Granada (8) |
| ELEANOR | _ of Castile, queen consort of Edward I of England (7) |
| ALFONSO | One of seven kings of Castile, five kings of Aragon, or two kings of Spain |
| BLANCHE | - of Castile was Queen to Louis VIII of France |
| ELASTIC | Flexible product of Castile |
| ZARAGOZA | Spanish name for the capital of Aragon; location of the AljaferA-a Moorish palace (8) |
| FERDINAND | --- II of Aragon, husband of Isabella I of Castile and father of Catherine of Aragon (9) |
| ISABELLA | --- of Castile, wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon and mother of Henry VIII's first wife Catherine of Aragon (8) |
| CROSS | Monument such as any one of the 12 commissioned by Edward I in memory of his first wife Eleanor of Castile, or one used as the focal point of a market-square (5) |
| ARAGON | The marriage of Ferdinand II of ___ to Isabella I of Castile helped unite 15th-century Spain (6) |
| VALLADOLID | University city in Spain; de facto capital of the autonomous region of Castile and Leon (10) |
| ISOMORPH | It has the same shape as Moorish palace's first construction |
| ALMIRA | Titular queen of Castile in a Handel opera |
| ISABELLAI | Queen of Castile who instituted the Spanish Inquisition with husband Ferdinand of Aragon (8,1) |
| SPRAIN | Rupture right in the land of Castile (6) |
| TOLEDO | City in central Spain on the River Tagus; the capital of Castile 1087-1560 (6) |
| VOCAL | Has a lot to say against leaders of Castile and Le'n (5) |
| BURGOS | Spanish city, the historic capital of Castile (6) |
| DAMASKROSE | The rose of Castile (Rosa x damascena) is also known as this (6,4) |
