| DUMFRIESHOUSE | Palladian country mansion and estate near Cumnock, bought and restored by a consortium headed by the then Prince Charles (8,5) |
| CLIVEDEN | British mansion and estate which was home to Nancy Astor, and the scene of events in the 1960s Profumo Affair (8) |
| HEVER | Kentish village with a moated castle that was Anne Boleyn's childhood home, later acquired and restored by multimillionaire William Waldorf Astor, who added lavish Italianate gardens and a surrounding |
| LLOYD | Writer and horticulturist whose lifelong home at Great Dixter was remodelled and restored by his father and Edwin Lutyens in 1910-12 (5) |
| BALMORAL | Castle and estate near Crathie; a Scottish home to the Royal family (8) |
| STEVEBRUCE | Former Manchester United centre back sacked as manager of Newcastle United in October 2021 after their takeover by a consortium led by the Saudi Arabian government's sovereign wealth fund |
| EBONY | Magazine whose archive was purchased by a consortium that includes the Smithsonian |
| CHATSWORTH | Duke and Duchess of Devonshire's home and estate near Bakewell in Derbyshire, said to have inspired Jane Austen's Pemberley (10) |
| AUXILIARYVERBS | Perhaps, will might be restored by a real, virus-conquering team (9,5) |
| SURINAM | Ruins restored by a leader of magnificent part of South America (7) |
| AYR | ____, Carrick and Cumnock is a Scottish parliamentary constituency created in 2005 |
| ROOMY | By the sound of it, cold and damp ___ like a country mansion? (5) |
| ROYALFLUSH | A sequence of five cards of the same suit headed by the ace in poker (5,5) |
| THECOMMONWEALTH | A group of states based around Britain's former dependencies and headed by the Queen (3,12) |
| VICENZA | This Italian city is famous as the home of the 16th-century architect Andrea Palladio and his successor Vincenzo Scamozzi. Some of the most notable Palladian structures there are the Basilica (1549-16 |
| LARKIN | H E Bates's "perfick" family headed by the resourceful tax-avoiding patriarch "Pop" and the often pop-drinking matriarch "Ma" (6) |
| HOLKHAM | Village in Norfolk that is the site of a vast Palladian-style house built to designs by William Kent, Matthew Brettingham and their patron Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (7) |
| KENT | William -; architect who designed the gardens at Stowe House and popularised the Palladian style in England (4) |
| ROPE | Object that appears to be cut and restored in a classic magic trick |
| GAO | Org. headed by the Comptroller General of the United States |
