| FOTHERINGHAY | Castle in Northants where Mary Queen of Scots was executed (12) |
| LEVEN | Loch near Kinross with a now ruined castle where Mary, Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1567 (5) |
| ASHBYDELAZOUCH | Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in this Leicestershire castle in 1569 (5-2-2-5) |
| LOCH | Expanse of water in Scotland with seven islands, on one of which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| LOCHLEVEN | Castle in which Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned (4,5) |
| ENTOMBED | Mary Queen of Scots was ---- in Westminster Abbey in 1612 (8) |
| AXED | Imposed a duty to be executed as Mary Queen of Scots was (4) |
| COUSIN | Mary Queen of Scots was Elizabeth I's (6) |
| CORBLIMEY | Shade of green in Northants town? I'm gobsmacked! (3,6) |
| EYDON | Engine 4924 named after Hall in the Palladian style in Northants (5) |
| BOSTON | False bishop in retreat where Mary Baker Eddy founded her church (6) |
| INN | Accommodation where Mary and Joseph were told there was no room |
| LYMEREGIS | Dorset town where Mary Anning made significant fossil discoveries in the 19th century |
| OFTHE | In 1461, Thomas Roos, Lord of the Manor of Holt, was executed by the Yorkists for supporting the Lancastrians in the War ... Roses (2, 3) |
| ROUEN | Where Joan of Arc was executed in 1431 |
| CRANMER | The Protestant archbishop of Canterbury who was executed when Mary Tudor became queen (7) |
| THRAPSTON | Short pants shortened at either end available in Northants. (9) |
| DAVENTRY | Bloke's attempt to secure new place in Northants |
| CASTLE | Three-lake fishery in Northants (*as by chalets) (6,5) |
| ASHBY | Three-lake fishery in Northants (*as by chalets) (6,5) |
