| HAYFEVER | Noel Coward comic play which opened in June 1925 (3,5) |
| BLITHESPIRIT | Noel Coward's comic play of 1941 (6,6) |
| NAAS | Horse racecourse in County Kildare, Ireland that opened in June 1924 (4) |
| WELDED | Eugene O"Neill stage play which opened in New York in 1924 (6) |
| THEMOUSETRAP | Play which opened in the West End of London in 1952 and has been running ever since (3,9) |
| MINEHEAD | Somerset coastal town featuring a Butlin's camp which opened in 1962 (8) |
| CAROUSEL | Rodgers & Hammerstein's second musical, which opened on Broadway in 1945 (8) |
| BRIGHTON | Neil Simon stage play which ran on Broadway 1983-86 (8) |
| SHERIDAN | Dramatist who wrote the comic plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal (8) |
| MOUSETRAP | 'The ---', play by Agatha Christie which opened in London in 1952 (9) |
| SMITHFIELD | Meat and poultry market in London which opened in its modern form in 1868 (10) |
| RAMPTON | Secure hospital in Nottinghamshire, east of Retford, which opened in 1912 (7) |
| METROPOLITAN | Opera house in New York which opened in 1883 (12) |
| YATES | Still-active seed business which opened in Auckland in 1883 (5) |
| KNOCK | International airport in western Ireland which opened in 1985 (5) |
| BROOKLANDS | The world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit, which opened in 1907 in Surrey |
| SEARSTOWER | Original name of the structure which opened in Chicago in 1973 as the world's tallest building (5,5) |
| SCALA | Santa Maria della ____, a church in Milan, was replaced by an opera house which opened in 1778 |
| LYTTELTON | New Zealand's oldest operational rail tunnel, which opened in 1867 (9) |
| DISNEYLAND | Californian theme park which opened in 1955 |
