| GLOUCESTER | City in the county in which Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie is set (10) |
| SLAD | Gloucestershire village where Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie was set (4) |
| BEDROOMS | There's space in the county, in short, for sleeping-places (8) |
| ROSEANNE | Show for which Laurie Metcalf won three Emmys |
| CARLISLE | The only city in the county of Cumbria (8) |
| EXETER | English city in the county of Devon |
| LANCS | In brief, the county in which most of the Forest of Bowland is located (5) |
| GLOS | Abbreviated name of the county in which Moreton-in-Marsh is located (4) |
| STAFFS | Rods or the county in which Stoke-On-Trent lies (in short) (6) |
| OXON | Abbreviated name of the county in which Bicester and Didcot are located (4) |
| LEE | Author of the travel book A Rose for Winter, the poetry collection The Sun My Monument and the autobiographical Cider with Rosie (3) |
| CIDER | - With Rosie ; one of Laurie Lee's memoirs about his childhood growing up in a remote Cotswold village (5) |
| BOURBON | Which alcoholic drink is named after the county in Kentucky where it was first made? (7) |
| CASEY | Which bishop of Galway welcomed Pope John Paul II to the county in September 1979? (5) |
| ROLLINTHEHAY | Sequel to Cider with Rosie? Another novel with hilly setting (4,2,3,3) |
| LAURIELEE | Author of the autobiographical 1959 book Cider with Rosie (6,3) |
| BEAST | From the east hitting the county in 2018 (5) |
| SALOP | Little Sarah has work for the county, in short (5) |
| STROUD | Cotswolds town where Cider with Rosie and As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning author Laurie Lee was born (6) |
| LAURIE | _ Lee, English poet and novelist whose works included Cider With Rosie (6) |
