| TALIA | Shire of |
| ARGYLL | Ancient shire of western Scotland |
| TALIAS | Ms. Shire's of "Rocky" (1976) |
| SHERIFF | Chief executive officer of a shire or county, in charge of law and order, etc. (7) |
| GAMGEE | Hobbit family of the Shire, one of whom, Samwise, accompanied Frodo Baggins on his adventures (6) |
| MERRY | One of the Tolkienian Hobbits of The Shire with Bilbo, Frodo, Pippin and Samwise; word meaning cheerful, festive, jolly or tipsy; or, a name for the English wild cherry (5) |
| RIBBON | A watchspring; a band-saw; or, one of the strips of cloth on a maypole, a morris dancer's costume or a shire horse's plaited mane (6) |
| BRASS | An amulet or charm in the form of a bell, heart, moon, star, sun-flash etc for the harness of a shire or similar draught animal; or, the copper alloy used to make said ornament (5) |
| RICHES | Head of commerce in shire distributed lots of money (6) |
| EYRE | Historical journey, especially the judicial circuit of a court, travelling from place to place or shire to shire (4) |
| HUNDRED | Subdivision of a county or shire |
| HEIRS | Scions of the devastated shire (5) |
| BOXER | The shire horse of Animal Farm |
| REEVE | Shire functionary of medieval England (5) |
| HOBBIT | Many an inhabitant of the Shire |
| FRODO | Hobbit of the Shire |
| CAAN | On-screen brother of Pacino, Cazale and Shire |
| CLYDESDALE | Breed of feathered draught horse resembling a compact shire; or, a cyclist/ runner with a heavy, powerful stature (10) |
| COUNT | An equal to Earl Peel, the last of the shire (5) |
| RIDING | Sitting on some part of the shire (6) |
