| LONGLEAT | Elizabethan house in Wiltshire occupied by the 8th Marquess of Bath (8) |
| HARDWICK | - Hall; Elizabethan house in Derbyshire designed by Robert Smythson for the Countess of Shrewsbury known as Bess (8) |
| CHAVENAGE | This leading artist has lived in a converted church in Geneva and also an Elizabethan house in Tetbury (9) |
| STEALING | Activity outlawed by the eighth of the Ten Commandments (8) |
| WHISTLER | Painter and illustrator whose notable works include a depiction of Ashcombe House (his friend Cecil Beaton's former home in Wiltshire), a 58ft-long mural in the dining room at Plas Newydd and a mural |
| LONGFORD | ____ Castle, stately home in Wiltshire and seat of the Earl of Radnor |
| VERACRUZ | City and port on the Gulf of Mexico occupied by the US during the Tampico Affair of 1914 (8) |
| ISENGARD | Fortress occupied by the wizard Saruman in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (8) |
| BRERETON | District of Cheshire East, including ___ Heath, Smethwick Green and Davenport; notable landmarks include ___ Hall, a Grade I listed Elizabethan house, and The Bear's Head pub on ___ Green (8) |
| ALCATRAZ | Island occupied by the activist group Indians of All Tribes for nineteen months, beginning in 1969 |
| CAPULETS | Family in drama about places occupied by the French (8) |
| NEAREAST | Formerly, the lands occupied by the Ottoman Empire (4,4) |
| SOTHEBYS | Place with lots of appeal occupied by The Times |
| SELECTOR | One who chooses region occupied by the French (8) |
| TUNIS | It was a Roman city on the north coast of Africa, near the site of ancient Carthage. It was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and liberated by Allied troops in 1943. In The Tempest (act 2, scene 1), Seb |
| THYNNE | Family name of the Marquess of Bath |
| LONGLEATHOUSE | Marquess of Bath's seat and stately home (8,5) |
| WEBB | Architect who designed Clouds House in Wiltshire, Standen in West Sussex and, with William Morris, Red House in London (4) |
| PONTIC | Mountains rising from northern Turkey, in an area once occupied by the ancient country of Pontus. This range reaches a height of 12,900 feet (3,932 metres), and its path is reflected in the outline of |
| LACOCK | ____ Abbey, country house in Wiltshire founded as a nunnery of the Augustinian order (6) |
