| HONOURED | Esteemed, in Essex |
| VIOLETS | Containing ionone esteemed in perfumery, wild flowers mentioned in a speech by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet whose name is suggestive of their colour (7) |
| MANDARINS | Fruit highly esteemed in China (9) |
| PRESTIGIOUS | Esteemed in people's minds (11) |
| PRECIOUSSTONE | One highly esteemed in the ring (8,5) |
| GRAYSELEGY | It was written in a churchyard in town in Essex before, say, in city in Cambridgeshire (5,5) |
| MALDON | Market town on the Blackwater estuary in Essex noted for salt that was the site of a battle in 991 described in an Old English poem (6) |
| NINE | Square in town in Essex (4) |
| GRAZE | Eat grass in town in Essex, say |
| DINES | Eats formally in neighbourhood in Essex (5) |
| TININESS | Characteristic of little kids, some kept in in Essex |
| EXE | River found in Devon and in Essex, easily |
| HOMECOUNTIES | Nobleman that's seen in houses in Essex, Kent, etc. (4,8) |
| ESTUARYENGLISH | Guys in leathers wasted what's picked up in Essex (7,7) |
| CHATTO | Described as the queen of English horticulture, late plantswoman who started a now public garden at Elmstead Market in Essex in 1967 (6) |
| CANVEYISLAND | Area of land in the Thames Estuary in Essex, separated from the mainland by a network of creeks (6,6) |
| LAKESIDE | Out-of-town shopping centre in Essex that opened in 1990 (8) |
| ROOTS | .... Hall, football stadium located in Southend-on-Sea in Essex (5) |
| STANSTED | Airport in Essex that opened in 1943 as a US Air Force bomber base (8) |
| NERINES | Flowering bulbs related to Amaryllis - found in container in Essex (7) |
