| BOWLINGGREEN | Name of a Kentucky city, and of the oldest public park in New York City |
| NEWAMSTERDAM | NBC medical drama set in one of the oldest public hospitals in the US: 2 wds. |
| GOLDENGATEPARK | Site of the oldest public Japanese garden in the U.S. (California) |
| HYDE | --- Park, public park in central London; famous for Speakers' Corner (4) |
| GORKY | Public park in central Moscow (5) |
| LEXINGTON | Kentucky city known as the Horse Capital of the World, at the heart of the Bluegrass region (9) |
| BOSTONCOMMON | Public park (the oldest one in America) in Massachusetts' largest city, established in 1634: 2 wds. |
| WILLIAMSON | Noted for his descriptions of nature, the countryside and of the First World War, author of the A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight series and Tarka the Otter (10) |
| BOISDEBOULOGNE | Large public park of western Paris in which the racecourses of Auteuil and Longchamp are located (4,2,8) |
| BATTERY | The ___, public park at the southern tip of New York's Manhattan Island (7) |
| AVENUE | Park in New York City, say |
| AVE | Seventh or Park, in New York City: Abbr. |
| CONEYISLAND | Resort and amusement park in New York (5,6) |
| UNITY | First name of one of the sisters of Nancy Mitford and of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire (5) |
| TONGARIRO | Oldest national park in New Zealand (1887), designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990 (9) |
| ZOOS | The oldest of such wildlife parks in New Zealand is in Wellington |
| PADUCAH | Kentucky city that's home to the Museum of the American Quilter's Society |
| BIGAPPLE | Anger about space to park in New York (3,5) |
| RHEINMAIN | German name of the metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of two rivers and of the former US airbase (5-4) |
| NAPIER | Surname of the British conqueror of Sindh, and of the mathematician who originated the concept of logarithms (6) |
