| WINCHESTER | English city in whose cathedral Mary I and Philip II of Spain married in 1554 (10) |
| CANTERBURY | City in whose cathedral St Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170 |
| SAOPAULO | City in whose vicinity the second coffee plantations in Brazil were established (3,5) |
| RIODEJANEIRO | City in whose vicinity the first coffee plantations in Brazil were established (3,2,7) |
| MARYTUDOR | The daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon; she married Philip II of Spain in 1554 (4,5) |
| GLOUCESTER | City on the River Severn whose cathedral contains the tomb of King Edward II (10) |
| PORTSMOUTH | English city in which Horatio Nelson's flagship HMS Victory is preserved (10) |
| BIRMINGHAM | English city in which you would find Villa Park football stadium (10) |
| ARMADA | Fleet of warships such as the ill-fated one launched by Philip II of Spain in 1588 in an attempt to overthrow Elizabeth I (6) |
| ASCHAM | Author of Toxophilus ("Lover of the Bow") and The Schoolmaster who tutored Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I in their youth (6) |
| ELGRECO | Nickname of the artist commissioned by Philip II of Spain to paint the altarpiece The Martyrdom of St Maurice, who was sacked shortly after its completion (2,5) |
| TITIAN | Italian painter of the Venetian school, patronised by Philip II of Spain (6) |
| ESCORIAL | Palace complex near Madrid created by King Philip II of Spain (8) |
| SIDNEY | Born at Penshurst Place in 1554 and fatally wounded in battle 31 years later, a poet, soldier and courtier who wrote the pastoral prose romance Arcadia (6) |
| PENSHURST | - Place; Henry VIII's hunting lodge, birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney in 1554 (9) |
| REIMS | French city whose cathedral was once the place of coronation of the Kings of France (5) |
| OLYMPIAS | Wife of Philip II of Macedonia and mother of Alexander the Great (8) |
| QUEENS | Mary I and Elizabeth I |
| SALISBURY | City in Wiltshire whose cathedral has the tallest spire in England (9) |
| AMALFI | Italian town in Campania, on the Gulf of Salerno, whose cathedral contains relics of Saint Andrew, brought from Constantinople |
