| MAUMBURY | & 9D Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| RINGS | Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| MORTIMERWHEELER | Archaeologist noted for his excavations at Maiden Castle in Dorset and in India (8,7) |
| AVEBURY | Village in Wiltshire noted for its Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles (7) |
| NEWTOWN | Development such as Poundbury in Dorchester, Telford in Shropshire or Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire (3,4) |
| WIMBORNE | Market town in East Dorset north of Poole (8,7) |
| WEYMOUTH | Seaside town in Dorset north of the Isle of Portland (8) |
| MINSTER | Market town in East Dorset north of Poole (8,7) |
| DORSET | Prehistoric peoples were active on the chalk uplands of this area. There are abundant monuments from the Neolithic Period, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. One monument, Maiden Castle, was the main town in R |
| WIMBORNEMINSTER | Market town in East Dorset north of Poole |
| POWYS | Educated at Sherborne and Cambridge, one of three literary brothers who wrote Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle (5) |
| MASTERPIECE | Eg great painting of plant in entrance to Maiden Castle? |
| WHEELER | Archaeologist who oversaw excavations at Maiden Castle in Dorset; or, a cyclist or pedal pusher (7) |
| VALKYRIE | In Norse mythology, this term refers to any of a group of maidens who served the god Odin and were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla. |
| ALEC | & 9D Author of novels A Spy in the Family and The Loom of Youth (4,5) |
| STONE | Buy liver and consecrate for cooking in henge (7,5,6) |
| SPEECH | What was said about peep show in Dorchester (8,6) |
| REPORTED | What was said about peep show in Dorchester (8,6) |
| INFERNO | There was a fire, and two houses in the middle of Maiden Newton were ruined -- it was a dangerously out-of-control blaze (7) |
| IRONAGE | The prehistoric period when the hill fort known as Maiden Castle was constructed (4,3) |
