| BEATEN | Defeated by Bea and a number of others (6) |
| THIRTY | A number of other fish to fry but not offshore (6) |
| NORFOLK | County whose habitats include broads, breck heaths, fens, meres, salt marshes, mudflats, ponds, pingos and number of others in its nature reserve at Holkham (7) |
| DUTCHELMDISEASE | Fungal disease of trees isolated in the Netherlands in 1921 by Bea Schwarz (5,3,7) |
| DOROTHY | Golden Girl played by Bea Arthur (------- Zbornak) |
| NEWENGLANDERS | Just out with 22 across and a fair number of others living around Boston (3,10) |
| LIVELY | Author of Moon Tiger, The Road to Lichfield and a number of children's books, including A Stitch in Time and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (6) |
| KITBAG | Container for gear and a number of game birds (6) |
| OCTOPI | Turns up, one pool is cold for duck and a number of molluscs (6) |
| BEDAUB | How they smear that association of Bea and Lou's friend (6) |
| PARSEC | A very long way to analyse words and a number (6) |
| ARTHUR | Name after Bea and before Eggleton |
| JAMES | Author of The Portrait of a Lady and a number of ghost stories, including The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Turn of the Screw (5) |
| SCOWLS | Lowers the boats and a number get in (6) |
| CANINE | Word often shortened to a letter and a number |
| MARRYAT | Naval officer who developed a code of maritime flag signalling and wrote The Children of the New Forest and a number of sea stories (7) |
| TELFORD | Nicknamed the Colossus of Roads by Robert Southey, a builder of canals, churches, roads, aqueducts and a number of bridges including one spanning the Menai Strait (7) |
| VANDYCK | Artist whose works include Self Portrait with a Sunflower, Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart and a number of portraits of Charles I as his court painter (3,4) |
| SPIRITLEVELS | They keep the House straight initially with whiskey and a number of stories (6,6) |
| WAITANGI | The Treaty of ___, 6 February 1840, between Britain and a number of Maori tribes, which effectively founded New Zealand (8) |
