| SUDBURY | Market town in Suffolk that was the birthplace in 1727 of The Blue Boy painter Thomas Gainsborough (7) |
| GAINSBOROUGH | Painter of The Blue Boy, born in Suffolk in 1727 |
| NEWMARKET | Town in Suffolk that is the headquarters of British horseracing |
| BROADS | The ___;A 125 miles of navigable lock-free waterways in Norfolk and Suffolk that was raised to national park status in 2015 (6) |
| THOMAS | The Blue Boy painter, d. 1788 (6,12) |
| BURYSTEDMUNDS | A market town in Suffolk and birthplace of the late Bob Hoskins (4,2,7) |
| LAWRENCE | Painter, Sir Thomas, whose portrait of the young Charles William Lambton is nicknamed in a similar manner to Gainsborough's The Blue Boy (8) |
| IPSWICH | County town of Suffolk where Thomas Gainsborough lived before moving to the Circus in Bath (7) |
| HANDEL | Baroque composer whose setting of the anthem Zadok the Priest for George II's coronation in 1727 has been performed/sung at every British coronation since (6) |
| SIZEWELL | Coastal village north of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, that became the site of a Magnox nuclear power station in 1968 |
| LATITUDE | Annual music festival held near Southwold in Suffolk that began in 2006 (8) |
| LOWESTOFT | Town in Suffolk that's the easternmost settlement in the United Kingdom |
| FELIXSTOWE | Port town in Suffolk with the largest container port in the UK (10) |
| GLASGOW | Which city visited by Daniel Defoe in 1727 did he describe as "the cleanest and beautifullest and best built city in Britain, London excepted"? (7) |
| ORWELL | River in Suffolk that enters the North Sea at Harwich (6) |
| HOO | Sutton ___, archaeological site in Suffolk that sounds like it's asking a question (3) |
| BLUE | The - Boy; full-length or life-size portrait in oil by English artist Thomas Gainsborough (4) |
| GEORGIANA | --- Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire, the subject of paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough (9) |
| THEBLUEBOY | Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, thought to be of Jonathan Buttle, the son of a wealthy hardware merchant |
| OILS | Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy" et al. |
