| ALDEBURGH | Suffolk resort, home to an annual music festival established in 1948 by Benjamin Britten (9) |
| FOREST | Music festival established, in short, had a satisfactory start (6) |
| NHS | It was established in 1948 by Nye Bevan (1,1,1) |
| HOLIEST | Religious festival established as most religious of all |
| PADSTOW | Cornish town and resort, home to several businesses owned by chef Rick Stein (7) |
| ACAPULCO | Mexican beach resort, home to the La Quebrada Cliff Divers (8) |
| BELLAGIO | Vegas resort home to the world's largest glass sculpture |
| LOWESTOFT | Most inferior of teashops initially in Suffolk resort |
| COACHELLA | Annual music festival located in California |
| UTAH | State home to an annual film festival that could relocate to Colorado or Ohio, per an announcement by the Sundance Institute (September, 2024) |
| GLOUCESTER | Founded by the Romans as Glevum, a cathedral city in the Cotswolds, home to an annual cheese-rolling event (10) |
| CROPREDY | Village near Banbury that holds an annual music festival set up by folk-rock band Fairport Convention (8) |
| SANREMO | Coastal city in Liguria whose Ariston Theatre hosts an annual music festival that inspired the Eurovision Song Contest |
| ASPEN | Home to an annual Ideas Festival |
| MONACO | World's second-smallest country, home to an annual Formula One Grand Prix (6) |
| ESSENCE | Magazine with an annual music festival in New Orleans |
| BURGHLEY | --- House, 16th Century country house built for William Cecil, Elizabeth I's chief minister, home to an annual Horse Trials (8) |
| HENLEY | Thameside town, home to an annual Royal Regatta (6) |
| WIGHT | Isle of -; land containing Osborne House, Cowes and parts of the Heritage Coast; host of an annual music festival (5) |
| OJAI | California town with an annual music festival |
