| OUDRY | Artist whose The White Duck valued at around £5m was stolen from Houghton Hall in 1992 (5) |
| LAGIOCONDA | Italian name for the Mona Lisa, a painting valued at around $780 m (2,8) |
| RODS | Old measurement units (alternative to poles and perches) for allotment sizes; each one being approximately 16ft (5m) (4) |
| LATERAL | - - - pass, standard pass to team-mate that travels about 3-5m (7) |
| GIBBS | Trainee-priest-turned-architect who designed the distinctive cupolas of Houghton Hall and the Gothic Temple at Stowe (5) |
| HEVER | - Castle; Anne Boleyn's childhood home, restored by William Waldorf Astor in 1903 at a cost equal to around £1 billion in today's terms (5) |
| TARTS | What was stolen from the Queen of Hearts |
| EIDER | Duck valued for soft down used in quilts (5) |
| HANDY | Good at around-the-house repairs (5) |
| DARBY | Stephen ___, 2012-2017 Bradford City defender married to 2007-2021 England defender Steph Houghton (5) |
| NOBLE | Former British gold coin valued at one third of a pound (5) |
| SMEWS | Black-and-white ducks |
| NONES | Canonical hour observed at around 3 pm |
| DIMES | Thinnest U.S. coins, at around 1/20th of an inch |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| CENTS | Coins valued at 1/100 dollars |
| APPLE | First U.S. company to be valued at $1 trillion |
| WORTH | Valued at |
| DRESDEN | City in Germany housing a castle from which royal jewellery was stolen from the Green Vault museum in November, 2019 (7) |
| GOLDFINGER | James Bond's famed Aston Martin, which he drove in this 1964 film, was stolen from a Florida airport hangar in 1997 and is now rumored to be somewhere in the Middle East |
