| BURTON | Designer of Kew's Palm and Temperate Houses and also the grounds of London Zoo including its raven's cage and Tuscan giraffe house with five-metre-high doors (6) |
| NORFOLK | County, home to Sandringham House and also the Broads where Arthur Ransome's Coot Club is set (7) |
| REGENTSPARK | Open space in Central London; the location of London Zoo (7,4) |
| REGENTS | ___ Park, site of London Zoo (7) |
| GORILLA | Guy the ____, one of London Zoo's most famous residents who first arrived in 1947 (7) |
| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| EDITH | Forename of the author who wrote The Railway Children, The Story of the Treasure Seekers and also the Psammead that includes The Story of the Amulet (5) |
| RAFFLES | With an ant, butterfly fish, horse race, woodpecker and the world's largest flower named after him, a statesman and naturalist who founded Singapore, the Zoological Society of London and London Zoo (7 |
| HILLS | Rome is known as the Eternal City and also the City of the seven of these geographical features |
| COOPER | Author of The Common Years and also the Rutshire Chronicles including Riders, Polo and Mount! (6) |
| PRAWNS | Small crustaceans, an essential ingredient of a seafood paella, and also the astronomic emblem of the Port of Soller, Mallorca (6) |
| CORYPHA | Genus of shrubs and trees that includes the Gebang palm and Talipot palm |
| PERICLES | What is the name of the Athenian statesman who commissioned the Parthenon, and also the title character in a play by Shakespeare? (8) |
| AYES | Homophone of the only letters absent from the answers, and also the clues |
| HASTINGS | Seaside town and Cinque Port in East Sussex whose history, including its now-ruined Norman motte and bailey castle established by William the Conqueror in 1066, is stitched into the very fabric of the |
| SAND | Shark found in tropical and temperate coastlines of all oceans, or the particles dunes are made of (4) |
| PHRAGMITES | Genus of four species of Large perennial reed grasses found in wetlands throughout the world's tropical and temperate regions (10) |
| EMILZATOPEK | Who created an Olympic first by winning the gold medal in 5,000 and 10,000 metres and also the marathon at the 1952 Helsinki Games? (4,7) |
| THEBIRDS | What is the name of an ancient comedy by Greek playwright Aristophanes and also the name of an Alfred Hitchcock film? (3,5) |
| FARM | From a Latin word originally used to denote a tax or rent, a tract of land for the cultivation of crops or rearing of livestock, including its associated barns and homestead (4) |
