| HOLYROOD | This Victorian Italianate mansion, named for the Queen's Edinburgh residence, is now part of Santa Sabina (8) |
| PIZZAMARGHERITA | Dish named for the queen consort of Italy's Umberto I |
| HOLYROODHOUSE | Palace of ___ , Queen's Edinburgh home (13) |
| CLIVEDEN | Italianate mansion in Buckinghamshire designed by Charles Barry in 1851, formerly home to the Astor family (8) |
| LAP | Part of Santa that kids sit on |
| PITT | Life was a constant race for this Victorian prime minister (4) |
| BELLY | Part of Santa that shakes when he laughs |
| OCEANGROVE | This Victorian town gets no coverage, sadly (5,5) |
| BEANFEAST | Party animal around parts of Santa Fe (9) |
| BEARDS | Parts of Santa costumes |
| SCYTHIA | Ancient region of Europe and Asia, north of the Black Sea, that is now part of the Ukraine |
| ANDREWMELLON | US Secretary of the Treasury, 1921-32, and co-founder of an institute which is now part of a Pittsburgh university |
| STRIDENT | A small weapon, in the past, is now part of the nuclear deterrent (8) |
| PLANETARIUM | The domed London ____, in Marylebone Road, is now part of the neighbouring Madame Tussauds |
| ANNAM | Former kingdom and French protectorate of Indochina which is now part of Vietnam (5) |
| HUNTINGDON | Chief town of a historic county that is now part of Cambridgeshire |
| TRANSKEI | Former Xhosa homeland of South Africa that is now part of Eastern Cape province (8) |
| TIEPOLO | Artist whose painting on the ceiling at the Wurzburg Residence is the world's largest fresco (7) |
| RARITY | It's unusual for the Queen's Trust to exclude the Church (6) |
| CORNICE | Italianate word for a wall's "crown" in the form of a decorative ledge (7) |
