| DENBIGH | Market town in the Vale of Clwyd, N Wales housing a ruined castle (7) |
| CONWY | Walled market town and resort in N Wales housing a 13th-century castle and church (5) |
| PENARTH | Town in the Vale of Glamorgan (7) |
| BARRY | Town in the Vale of Glamorgan (5) |
| SWANSEA | City and holiday resort in South Wales housing a castle (7) |
| RYEDALE | Historic district of North Yorkshire in the Vale of Pickering (7) |
| PENRITH | Market town in Cumbria housing a ruined medieval castle (7) |
| MERTHYR | Town in Mid Glamorgan, Wales, housing Cyfarthfa Castle (7,6) |
| RHYL | Resort town in Denbighshire, N Wales at the entrance to the Vale of Clwyd (4) |
| ELASTIC | I am put in a ruined castle for a stretch maybe (7) |
| MUMBLES | District of Swansea, South Wales, housing Oystermouth Castle (7) |
| NEWPORT | Welsh city with a ruined castle beside the River Usk (7) |
| ALDWYCH | Cry of surprise, finding Clwyd transformed within part of London (7) |
| HARLECH | North Wales town with a ruined castle |
| LOCATES | Finds nothing in a ruined castle (7) |
| NEATH | Town in Wales northeast of Swansea housing a ruined castle |
| FLINT | Town in NE Wales on the Dee estuary housing a ruined castle (5) |
| LUDLOW | Market town in Shropshire near the border with Wales housing a medieval castle |
| CRABBE | A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works such as The Village and The Borough were esteemed by Tennyson (6) |
| BEAUMARIS | Resort town on the Isle of Anglesey, Wales, housing a castle |
