| ALTONTOWERS | Derbyshire home built for the 15th Earl of Shrewsbury |
| CRAGSIDE | Victorian country house built for the magnate Baron Armstrong (8) |
| CHAIR | The _ _ _ _ _ , name for the 15th fence on Aintree's Grand National course (5) |
| CHESTERFIELD | Market town in Derbyshire, home to a famous 14th-Century church with a twisted spire (12) |
| BURGHLEY | --- House, 16th Century country house built for William Cecil, Elizabeth I's chief minister, home to an annual Horse Trials (8) |
| OSBORNE | House built for Victoria - or George? (7) |
| SALOP | Former name for both the county of Shropshire and the town of Shrewsbury |
| STOREY | Part of house for rent in the outskirts of Shrewsbury (6) |
| PETERS | Pen name of the author who wrote the Cadfael Chronicles based on a fictional mystery-solving medieval Welsh Benedictine monk, apothecary and herbalist of Shrewsbury Abbey (6) |
| HARDWICK | - Hall; Elizabethan house in Derbyshire designed by Robert Smythson for the Countess of Shrewsbury known as Bess (8) |
| HOTSPUR | Nickname of the English soldier Sir Henry Percy, killed at the Battle of Shrewsbury in 1403 (7) |
| NEST | The home built by a bird to rear the young birds (4) |
| LUTONHOO | House on the Hertfordshire/Bedfordshire borders built for the 3rd Earl of Bute by Robert Adam |
| NAGANO | Home of Japan's Aqua Wing Arena, built for the 1998 Olympics |
| PRINCESINTHE | 6 and 9 The ___, 1992 book by Alison Weir about Edward V and his brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (7,2,3,5) |
| TOWER | The -, 1992 book by Alison Weir about Edward V and his brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (7,2,3,5) |
| BESS | Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury known as -- of Hardwick (4) |
| BECKFORD | Vathek author whose Gothic revival building Fonthill Abbey was once the largest private home built in the UK (8) |
| HAREWOOD | - House; stately home built in Yorkshire for the Lascelles family with Robert Adam interiors and Thomas Chippendale furniture (8) |
| SOUTHAMERICA | A rustic home built overlooking a large area of land (5,7) |
