| THORNHILL | English artist who painted the Hall ceiling of Blenheim Palace in 1716 (9) |
| CHURCHILL | British prime minister who was born at Blenheim Palace in 1874 (7,9) |
| WINSTON | First name of the prime minister born at Blenheim Palace in 1874 who later lived at Chartwell and delivered his "finest hour" speech in 1940 (7) |
| WOODSTOCK | Georgian town in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, site of Blenheim Palace (9) |
| WYCHERLEY | English dramatist (1641-1716), best known for The Country Wife |
| LEBRUN | A founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture noted for his paintings on the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles (2,4) |
| HAWKSMOOR | Known as the "devil's architect", Christopher Wren's clerk who also collaborated with John Vanbrugh on Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard (9) |
| ETTY | English artist who painted The Triumph of Cleopatra in 1821 (4) |
| AUCHTERARDER | Town near Perth which was burnt down in 1716 by the Earl of Mar's Jacobites after the battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715 (12) |
| MUNNINGS | Knighted English artist who painted The Fairground in 1912 (8) |
| VANBRUGH | English architect, designer of Blenheim Palace (8) |
| TURNER | English artist who painted Calais Pier in 1801 (6) |
| OXFORDSHIRE | County, site of Blenheim Palace (11) |
| PETERPAULRUBENS | Flemish Baroque artist born in 1577 who painted the ceiling of the Banqueting House in London (5,4,6) |
| LELY | Peter ---, 17th Century Dutch-English artist who painted Oliver Cromwell "warts and all" (4) |
| DOGGETT | Thomas, Irish actor who founding a sculling prize in 1716 which is still competed for on the River Thames on August 1 (7) |
| MICHELANGELO | Master of Renaissance art whose largest "canvas", as commissioned by Pope Julius II, was the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, which he painted in biblical scenes over four years, including The Creation |
| POYNTER | Sir Edward, English artist who was director of the National Gallery in London 1894-1905 (7) |
| CAPABILITY | ___ Brown, gardener and landscape architect, born in 1716 (10) |
| BLIMP | The airship causes a glitch around the back of Blenheim (5) |
