| EPSOMDOWNS | Site of Britain's annual Derby |
| EPSOM | Racecourse that hosts the annual Derby Stakes (5) |
| KENTUCKY | US state with an annual Derby race since 1875 (8) |
| SANDHURST | Site of Britain's Royal Military Academy (9) |
| FELIXSTOWE | Edwardian town on the Suffolk coast, site of Britain's largest container port (10) |
| LIZARD | The -; Cornish peninsula around 10 miles from Helston, site of Britain's most-southerly point (6) |
| ROANOKE | Island site of Britain's first American colony |
| KEW | Site of Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens |
| VIOLET | Colour of the Algerian iris; or, a pansylike flower of woodlands, hedgerows and old pastures " one of Britains first native plants to bloom after winter (6) |
| OLDSARUM | One of the most notorious of Britain's 'rotten boroughs', ended by the Reform Act of 1832 (3,5) |
| VOLE | With a population of around 75 million, a field mouse-like animal which is one of Britain's most common mammals; or, in ecarte the winning of all the tricks in one deal (4) |
| WALPOLE | Author of The Castle of Otranto and some 7,000 letters who was the youngest son of Britain's de facto first prime minister and created Strawberry Hill House (7) |
| TALBOT | Ancient breed of extinct white hound whose name is immortalised on the signs of many of Britain's old coaching inns and pubs (6) |
| FIRSTSEALORD | --- --- --- and chief of the naval staff, title of the military head of Britain's Royal Navy (5,3,4) |
| KEIR | Name shared by a Scottish trade unionist, 1856- 1915, one of the founders of Britain's Labour Party, and the current leader of that party (4) |
| CHEQUERS | Country retreat of Britains prime ministers |
| GIBB | Surname of "Britain's first family of harmony" |
| ANGLE | View of one of Britain's invaders? |
| NYE | 'We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down,' said ... Bevan, founder of Britain's National Health Service |
| BRANAGH | Kenneth ---, actor and filmmaker, the current president of Britain's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (7) |
