| THORNBURY | Market town in South Gloucestershire that was a Parliamentary constituency from 1885 to 1950 |
| SEAT | A parliamentary constituency from the east |
| CHIPPINGSODBURY | Market town in South Gloucestershire that hosts a twice-yearly Mop Fair |
| HEADLOUSE | Parasite was a parliamentary leader, said Spooner? (4,5) |
| OAKLEY | Annie ___, US sharpshooter (born Phoebe Ann Mosey) who performed with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show from 1885 to 1902 (6) |
| RANGEWORTHY | Village in South Gloucestershire north of Yate (11) |
| HENLEY | Michael Heseltine's constituency from 1974 until 2001 (6) |
| SAFESEAT | A parliamentary constituency unlikely to be lost to an opposition party (4,4) |
| BYELECTION | A poll held in a parliamentary constituency after the sitting MP has resigned or died (2,8) |
| REDRUTH | Cornish town that forms a parliamentary constituency with Camborne (7) |
| WANTAGE | Market town in south Oxfordshire that was Alfred the Great's birthplace (7) |
| BEXLEYHEATH | ----------- and Crayford, a parliamentary constituency in Kent (11) |
| BEDFORD | A market town in south-east central England, on the River Great Ouse (7) |
| ROTHERHAM | Market town in South Yorkshire that contains the stately home Wentworth Woodhouse (9) |
| CHELTENHAM | Racecourse in Gloucestershire that hosts an annual National Hunt festival in March (10) |
| SMITHSWEEKLY | Which Australian tabloid was published from 1919 to 1950 and founded by McKay, Packer and Smith? (6, |
| NIZAMS | Name given to sovereigns of Hyderabad, India, reigning from 1713 to 1950 |
| TEDDER | Arthur William, Briton who was Marshal of the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1950 (6) |
| DISS | Market town in South Norfolk on the River Waveney (4) |
| TONBRIDGE | Market town in south-east England (pop about 40,000), on the River Medway (9) |
