| BEDROOMS | There's space in the county, in short, for sleeping-places (8) |
| GLOUCESTER | City in the county in which Laurie Lee's Cider With Rosie is set (10) |
| SALOP | Little Sarah has work for the county, in short (5) |
| BUCKINGHAMSHIRE | The county, in short, makes money (15) |
| NICHE | Pleasant to hold hydrogen where there's space in the wall (5) |
| THRESHER | Another three hours in short for farm machinery (8) |
| SKIPPERS | Word for barns as sleeping places; captains of teams; dancers; darting butterflies; masters/mistresses of small ships; rope-jumpers; or, sauries (8) |
| BEDPOSTS | Vertical supports for sleeping place |
| ASCRIBED | Put down like overlapping sleeping places (8) |
| COTSWOLD | Sleeping-places originally welcomed by elderly sheep (8) |
| BUNKBEDS | Tiered sleeping places |
| STAFFS | Rods or the county in which Stoke-On-Trent lies (in short) (6) |
| LANCS | In brief, the county in which most of the Forest of Bowland is located (5) |
| ONTHEMOVE | Going over books, there's space in a seaside town (2,3,4) |
| GAP | Where there's space in Georgia, Prohibition starts (3) |
| FEATHERBEDS | Pampers Dad around the East county, in short (7-4) |
| GLOS | Abbreviated name of the county in which Moreton-in-Marsh is located (4) |
| BEAST | From the east hitting the county in 2018 (5) |
| BILLET | Fee owed and in French for sleeping-place (6) |
| WAR | County, in short, that's declared? (3) |
