| ASHDOWN | East Sussex Forest that inspired the location for 7 down's children's stories (7) |
| IDE | Common suffix for 7-Downs |
| SEATTLE | US city in which Bill Gates was born and is the location for Amazon HQ (7) |
| ARGONNE | French forest that was the site of a 1918 battle |
| BIGEARS | In the children's stories, who is a pal of Noddy? (3,4) |
| AAMILNE | Author, best known for children's stories, who served in both world wars (1,1,5) |
| BIGGLES | Pilot hero of children's stories (7) |
| NANETTE | Forename of a "face" of Fairy Liquid with velvet-brown hair who starred in her husband Bryan Forbes's films and penned children's stories and volumes about animals, cookery and fine fare (7) |
| GRAHAME | English writer (born in Scotland) of children's stories (1859-1932). |
| FOREVER | In perpetuity putting an end to children's stories (3,4,3,4) |
| DRSEUSS | American writer of children's stories (2,5) |
| JAMESBLUNT | English singer/songwriter with a long-standing connection to Mallorca; he got married on the island in 2014 and it was the location for the video of his hit song "You're Beautiful" (5,5) |
| ANDES | Danes lost in range that was the location for a 2009 Top Gear special (5) |
| NECKAR | German river rising in the Black Forest that joins the Rhine at Mannheim (6) |
| NORTHWALES | Gwrych Castle, the location for I'm A Celeb in 2020 and 2021, is in this part of the UK (5,5) |
| AEROSPACE | Area copes badly with the location for flighty types (9) |
| MAJOROAK | Tree in Sherwood Forest that was the legendary meeting-place for Robin Hood and his men (5,3) |
| ARDENNES | Belgian forest that contain the Spa Francorchamps race circuit and probably contributes to the notoriously changeable weather there. (8) |
| CABIN | House in the forest that might be made of logs |
| TEXAS | ...and the location for many Westerns (5) |
