| CONWY | Market town in Wales, site of a railway bridge built by Robert Stephenson and a suspension bridge built by Thomas Telford (5) |
| SYDNEY | Capital of New South Wales, site of a famous opera house and Port Jackson (6) |
| RUNCORN | Location of a railway bridge across the Mersey (7) |
| LLANELLI | Market town in Wales noted as a centre for tinplate production (8) |
| BERYL | 0-6-0DM locomotive built as Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn 7697 and which found a home at the Tanfield Railway (5) |
| BRIDGES | Structures designed by engineers including Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Rennie, Robert Stephenson and Thomas Telford, among other things (7) |
| CLIFTON | Bristol suspension bridge, built by Brunel (7) |
| ROCKET | Steam locomotive designed by Robert Stephenson, on display at the National Railway Museum in York (6) |
| SNAPS | Like a railway bridge across a river - but get it the wrong way round, and it breaks (5) |
| ADDAMSFAMILY | Theme #2 (Bu-bu-bu-bum *snap* *snap*, bu-bu-bu-bum *snap* *snap*, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu-bu-bum, bu-bu- |
| CLAPPER | A former word for a rabbit hole; a primitive type of bridge built from planks laid on piles of stones; the tongue of a bell; or, a wooden contrivance for scaring birds (7) |
| VALLEY | Wye -; AONB on the border between England and Wales, site of Tintern Abbey, Goodrich Castle, Symonds Yat and "the town of books" (6) |
| HATFIELD | Town in Hertfordshire, site of a house built by Robert Cecil (8) |
| IRON | The ___ Bridge, bridge built in 1781 over the River Severn in Shropshire that is a symbol of the Industrial Revolution (4) |
| ROBERT | Civil engineer employed by London and South Western Railway whose projects included Kew Railway Bridge and Meldon railway viaduct (7,6,9) |
| GALBRAITH | Civil engineer employed by London and South Western Railway whose projects included Kew Railway Bridge and Meldon railway viaduct (7,6,9) |
| UZBEKISTAN | Lonely Planet's new Best in Travel 2024 offers suggestions in five categories, including this pick, in COUNTRIES, where "the cultural hubs of Samarkand, Bu khara, and Khiva still evoke the era of the |
| NORTHSTAR | One of two Broad Gauge engines built by Stephenson & Co. in 1837 (5,4) |
| BLUE | Mountains in New South Wales, site of The Three Sisters (4) |
| BRISTOL | English city noted for blue glass, a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and a modern reconstruction of John Cabot's caravel Matthew (7) |
