| NEIGHBOURS | Ignores hub built by the British (10) |
| SAVOYHOTEL | Luxury establishment on the Strand in London, built by the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte (5,5) |
| GRASSROOTS | Like a built-by-the-people movement |
| KHYBERPASS | Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947 |
| NATHANHALE | Revolutionary War spy who was captured and killed by the British at the age of twenty-one |
| HOARELAVAL | & 11A Secret proposal of 1935 made by the British Foreign Secretary and prime minister of France to end the Second Italo-Ethiopian War (5-5,4) |
| SYPHILIS | What disease was called "the French disease" by the British and Germans, "the Neapolitan disease" by the French, "the Polish disease" by the Russians and "the German disease" by the Polish? (8) |
| SUEZ | Which great canal, completed in 1869, was built by the French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, but acquired by the British six years later? (4) |
| THEBIGBANG | Cosmological term first used by the British physicist and astronomer Fred Hoyle in 1949 (3,3,4) |
| MERRIMAC | An iron-clad vessel built by the Confederate forces in the hope of breaking the blockade imposed by the North. |
| BATH | English town with the hot springs and the remains of the settlement of Aquae Sulis built by the wate |
| SPHINX | Huge stone statue built by the ancient Egyptians with the body of a lion and the head of a man |
| NESTS | Structures built by the vertebrates studied by ornithologists (5) |
| LONDINIUM | Settlement built by the Romans on the Thames (9) |
| ALLIGATOR | Born in the US, moved to Berlin, admired by Hitler, bombed by the Allies, rescued by the British, moved to Moscow, died there in 2020, aged 84. What animal was Saturn? (9) |
| HADRIANSWALL | Name given to the fortification built by the Roman Empire in Britain from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Sol |
| ALHAMBRA | Name the world-famous palace built by the Moors in Granada, Spain. (8) |
| RABY | Castle in County Durham, built by the Nevills and later passed to the Vanes (4) |
| SIEGFRIEDLINE | Fortifications built by the Germans before and during the Second World War (9,4) |
| CASTLES | Fortified buildings such as the around 1,000 motte-and-bailey examples built by the Normans (7) |
