| CARDIGAN | One of the two garments forming a twinset; or, a market town in Ceredigion whose castle was the location of the first eisteddfod (8) |
| SHOP | Retail building such as a boutique, bakery, haberdashery or village store, originally a booth or a market stall (4) |
| STAPLE | U-shaped wire stitch or a market's primary fungible shaper - one holding together economies, the other paper (6) |
| PEMBROKE | Market town in southwest Wales whose castle was the birthplace of Henry Tudor (8) |
| ATHLIT | Old port town near Haifa whose castle was the Knights Templars' last redoubt (6) |
| ELSINORE | Danish port whose castle was the setting for Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' |
| PAIR | A brace of pheasants, couple of lovers, distich of lines, duo of rowers, duet of singers, dyad of gloves, flight of stairs, yoke of oxen or other two of a kind or twinset of equal things (4) |
| CAERNARFON | In 1969, which castle was the scene of the investiture of the Prince of Wales? (10) |
| LUDLOW | A market town in Shropshire, site of a castle founded in the 11th Century (6) |
| COLDITZ | German town on the River Mulde whose castle was used as a top-security POW camp in World War II (7) |
| 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 |
| MOORE | Author of many rural-themed books including The Brensham Trilogy, his portrait of English country life in a market town in Tewkesbury (5) |
| LAMPETER | Welsh town in Ceredigion at the confluence of the River Teifi and the Afon Dulas |
| TWOPIECE | A bikini, co-ord, suit or twinset consisting of a pair or combo of typically matching garments (3-5) |
| ECCLESCAKE | A pastry with a filling of dried fruit named after a market town in Greater Manchester (6,4) |
| HARLECH | Town in Gwynedd, N Wales whose castle was a Tudor stronghold (7) |
| CONWY | Containing Britain's smallest house and forming a gateway to Snowdonia, a market town on the north coast of Wales guarded by a medieval castle (5) |
| BLARNEY | Town in Cork whose castle contains a stone that endows someone who kisses it with the gift of the gab (7) |
| MACCLESFIELD | A market town in Cheshire, a former centre of the silk industry (12) |
| BURYSTEDMUNDS | A market town in Suffolk and birthplace of the late Bob Hoskins (4,2,7) |
