| GLOS | Abbreviated name of the Cotswolds county where of Bourtonon-the-Water, Bibury, Cirencester, Stroud and Tewkesbury are located (4) |
| SHEEP | Experience quiet around middle of the Cotswolds? |
| BROADWAY | Town known as 'Jewel of the Cotswolds' (8) |
| ROOM | The "where" of a Clue accusation, whose identity is hinted at by the three circled answers in this q |
| XYSTUS | Portico or roofed area where of pay from the Government ? (9) |
| LOCATE | Place where of icer went up and dined (6) |
| NOTTS | Abbreviated name of the county famous for the legends of Robin Hood and as the site of Sherwood Fore |
| LNER | Abbreviated name of the second largest of the 'Big Four' railway companies created by the Railways Act of 1921 in Britain |
| STCROIX | The abbreviated name of the largest of the US Virgin Islands (2,5) |
| PEMBO | Abbreviated name of a county that gave its name to a breed of Corgi, where Tenby and Marloes form part of one of the three Welsh national parks (5) |
| ANZACS | Abbreviated name of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps volunteers who fought in the Gallipoli Campaign, honoured in a national day of remembrance annually on April 25 (6) |
| XMAS | The Greek letter Chi is used as a symbol in this abbreviated name of the Christian festive season |
| SYMBOL | An emblematic representation of something, such as any one of abbreviated names of the elements on the periodic table |
| NASA | Abbreviated name of the agency that implemented the Apollo missions that landed men on the Moon (1,1,1,1) |
| MTCOOK | Abbreviated name of the highest peak in New Zealand, Aoraki, where Edmund Hillary developed his clim |
| SASK | Abbreviated name of the Canadian province with the capital Regina (4) |
| NSPCC | Abbreviated name of the charity that operates the service c (1,1,1,1,1) |
| OXON | Abbreviated name of the county in which Bicester and Didcot are located (4) |
| GCHQ | Abbreviated name of the UK's intelligence agency operating from a giant top-secret "Doughnut" (1,1,1,1) |
| COTSWOLD | Variety of honey-coloured Jurassic oolitic limestone characteristic of many of the cottages and walls of villages including Castle Combe, Stanton, Bibury and Kingham (8) |
