| OUDRY | Artist whose The White Duck was stolen from Houghton Hall in 1992 (5) |
| OBOE | Instrument for which Mr. Lies in "Angels in America" said, "If the duck was a songbird it would sing like this" |
| ORRAMAN | Employee on croft, perhaps with duck was quick to corner sheep |
| TEAL | Duck was unfortunately late (4) |
| GIBBS | Architect who wrote an influential pattern book and designed Radcliffe Camera, St Martin-in-the-Fields, parts of Stowe, Ditchley Park, and, with Colen Campbell, Houghton Hall (5) |
| TARTS | What was stolen from the Queen of Hearts |
| SCOTT | Novelist whose The Raj Quartet begins with The Jewel in the Crown (5) |
| LILLO | George -, English dramatist whose The London Merchant was first staged in 1731 (5) |
| SYNGE | Playwright (surname) whose The Playboy of the Western World caused riots in 1907 (5) |
| KLIMT | Whose The Kiss is on display at the Belvedere Gallery in Vienna? (5) |
| EIDER | Black-and-white duck |
| DARBY | Stephen ___, 2012-2017 Bradford City defender married to 2007-2021 England defender Steph Houghton (5) |
| DUKAS | French composer whose The Sorcerer's Apprentice features in Fantasia (5) |
| ADAMS | Douglas -; author whose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books were serialised (5) |
| ALICE | Girl who dreamt original piece was stolen out of spite |
| SMEWS | Black-and-white ducks |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| JOHNTRAVOLTA | The Chevy Malibu driven by this actor in Pulp Fiction was stolen from director Quentin Tarantino's driveway in 1994 and only recovered in 2013 |
