| OLDSHIP | A mannequin of a sailor adorns the roof of The ___ ___ Inn, a Macclesfield pub in the style of a Tudor roadhouse (3,4) |
| LIGHT | Fairy -; one of a series of illuminations strung together as a decoration, used to adorn the dresses of principal fairies on the opening night of G&S's Iolanthe (5) |
| GRAPES | Lovers of the fruit of the vine are keen on these hostelries: The ___ Inn, Halton Road, Runcorn, and the Fox and ___, in Hawarden, Deeside (6) |
| OPTIC | Having left the pub in the centre of Catcott, I went off in search of somewhere else I could get an alcoholic drink from (5) |
| SUN | The Rising ___, a country pub in Congleton popular with walkers and boaters from the nearby Macclesfield Canal (3) |
| BELUCASAPPHIRES | Rare blue gems of Nunavut's Baffin Island (named for a kind of whale found in Arctic waters) which adorn the snowflake shaped brooch gifted by Canada to Queen Elizabeth in 2017 to mark her then 2 Wds. |
| STAPLE | ____ Inn, in High Holborn, is London’s only surviving Elizabethan half-timbered building, on the site of a former wool trade centre and later an Inn of Chancery |
| DUMMY | It's the name of a baby's pacifier or a mannequin (5) |
| ASTAIRE | Actor and dancer in Holiday Inn, a 1942 film in which crooner Bing Crosby sings White Christmas (7) |
| OWNERS | Diane Sugden and Chas Dingle are the co-__ of the Woolpack pub in the Dales (6) |
| PONY | The Prancing ___, inn in "The Lord of the Rings" |
| DEAN | River rising at Longclough, above Rainow village in the Macclesfield Forest; it joins the River Bollin between Styal and Wilmslow (4) |
| SCRUFF | Mr ___, stage name of DJ and electronica, house and triphop record producer Andrew Carthy, born in Macclesfield in 1972 (6) |
| ORANGERY | A sheltered place or greenhouse for growing citrus trees; there is a particularly fine example at Lyme Park, a National Trust house near Macclesfield (8) |
| ANNIE | Making a comeback in "White Horse Inn", a musical heroine (5) |
| WORKINGMODEL | Active prototype of a mannequin in employment (7,5) |
| RHUBARB | Plant top-of-the-range pub in the middle (7) |
| JAMAICAINN | 1936 novel by Daphne du Maurier set around a pub in the middle of Bodmin Moor |
| PINNY | Protection for a pub in the outskirts of Paisley (5) |
| TABARD | The ____, inn from which the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales went (6) |
