| CEDARRAPIDS | Childhood home of Grant Wood and Elijah Wood |
| TINE | Point of Grant Wood's "American Gothic"? |
| GLAMIS | Castle in the heart of Angus, ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne since 1372, childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (6) |
| SON | Macaulay Culkin and Elijah Wood thriller, The Good ... (3) |
| STIRLING | Scottish city, site of a castle that was the childhood home of Mary, Queen of Scots (8) |
| EASTORANGE | New Jersey childhood home of Whitney Houston and Queen Latifah |
| DIRKGENTLYS | Eccentrically fun mystery series on BBC America starring Samuel Barnett and Elijah Wood, "___ ___ Holistic Detective Agency" |
| FLIPPER | 1963 film about a dolphin, remade in 1996 with Paul Hogan and Elijah Wood (7) |
| SLIGO | County in the Irish province of Connacht, childhood home of Nobel laureate W.B. Yeats (5) |
| SMALLVILLE | Childhood home of Superman |
| ESTATES | Jamaica ___, N.Y. (childhood home of Donald Trump) |
| OMEMEE | Community in Ontario which was the early childhood home of Neil Young |
| BISHOPAUCKLAND | Co Durham town, a childhood home of Stan Laurel |
| NAZARETH | Town in northern Israel; childhood home of Jesus (8) |
| SCRANTON | Childhood home of President Biden |
| CASTLE | Childhood home of the late Queen Mother in Angus (6,6) |
| HATFIELDHOUSE | Childhood home of Elizabeth I, in Hertfordshire |
| GLAMISCASTLE | Childhood home of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, in Angus, Scotland (6,6) |
| HEVER | 15th-century castle near Edenbridge in Kent that was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn (5) |
| HANDEL | Composer of 'Messiah' and 'Elijah', apparently |
