| BLENHEIMPALACE | Peace he-man Bill arranged in Oxfordshire stately home (8,6) |
| REGULAR | Even in peace he is prepared to fight (7) |
| PALACE | Mingling beech and lime, a plan for Oxfordshire stately home (8,6) |
| BLENHEIM | Mingling beech and lime, a plan for Oxfordshire stately home (8,6) |
| BAILEY | Funny man Bill's outer castle wall (6) |
| HEADBUTT | The man Bill's behind French footballer's famous attacking move (8) |
| HENLEYONTHAMES | The holy man seen wandering somewhere in Oxfordshire (6-2-6) |
| CHIPPINGNORTON | Nicking old motorbike in Oxfordshire town (8,6) |
| HARRYANDMEGHAN | Rippling he-man Hardy rang couple in schism |
| NOROOMATTHEINN | Wayward he-man in Toronto is bad news for Mary and Joseph (2,4,2,3,3) |
| KELMSCOTT | Village near Lechlade in Oxfordshire, site of William Morris' former summer home which he described as "Heaven on Earth" (9) |
| UFFINGTON | Village in Oxfordshire noted for a large white horse figure in chalk nearby (9) |
| ABINGDON | Daughter resides in a house near new town in Oxfordshire (8) |
| DIDCOT | Town in Oxfordshire reached by the Great Western Railway in 1839 |
| THAME | Town in Oxfordshire that hosts the largest one-day agricultural show in Britain |
| WOODSTOCK | Market town in Oxfordshire, home to Blenheim Palace (9) |
| THOMPSON | Author who fictionalised her birth hamlet Juniper Hill in Oxfordshire as Lark Rise in her Lark Rise to Candleford trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels (8) |
| BANBURY | Market town on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire associated with "a fine lady upon a white horse" in a well-known nursery rhyme |
| WINO | Lush part of meadow in Oxfordshire (4) |
| THEVERYSAME | Each second in Oxfordshire town is no different |
