| RINGS | Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| MAUMBURY | Neolithic henge in Dorchester, Dorset, north-east of Maiden Castle (8,5) |
| NEWTOWN | Development such as Poundbury in Dorchester, Telford in Shropshire or Cumbernauld in North Lanarkshire (3,4) |
| AVEBURY | Wiltshire site of a neolithic henge monument |
| WIMBORNE | Market town in East Dorset north of Poole (8,7) |
| WEYMOUTH | Seaside town in Dorset north of the Isle of Portland (8) |
| WIMBORNEMINSTER | Market town in East Dorset north of Poole |
| MINSTER | Market town in East Dorset north of Poole (8,7) |
| MORTIMERWHEELER | Archaeologist noted for his excavations at Maiden Castle in Dorset and in India (8,7) |
| SPEECH | What was said about peep show in Dorchester (8,6) |
| REPORTED | What was said about peep show in Dorchester (8,6) |
| DORSET | Prehistoric peoples were active on the chalk uplands of this area. There are abundant monuments from the Neolithic Period, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. One monument, Maiden Castle, was the main town in R |
| MASTERPIECE | Eg great painting of plant in entrance to Maiden Castle? |
| WHEELER | Archaeologist who oversaw excavations at Maiden Castle in Dorset (7) |
| MUM | Dad's mate, in Dorchester |
| UMASS | __ Boston (sch. in Dorchester) |
| VALKYRIE | In Norse mythology, this term refers to any of a group of maidens who served the god Odin and were sent by him to the battlefields to choose the slain who were worthy of a place in Valhalla. |
| POWYS | Educated at Sherborne and Cambridge, one of three literary brothers who wrote Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance, Weymouth Sands and Maiden Castle (5) |
| IRONAGE | The prehistoric period when the hill fort known as Maiden Castle was constructed (4,3) |
| MEGALITH | Flipping stone came down by front of henge - this may be it |