| BEAUMARIS | Town in Anglesey that is the site of a ruined castle with some 300 arrow loops, built as part of Edward I's conquest of Wales (9) |
| ISL | Prince Edw. in The Maritimes |
| MENAIBRIDGE | Town in Anglesey overlooking the strait which separates the island from north Wales |
| LOCATES | Manages to find ruined castle with nothing in it (7) |
| WORK | Energy transfer measured in joules; a creation such as a book, musical composition or piece of embroidery, sewing etc; or, a structure such as a wall, built as part of a fortification (4) |
| WINDSCALE | The ____ piles were nuclear reactors built as part of the UK's atomic bomb project after the Second World War |
| IGLOO | Ice house built as part of oil rig looks cool |
| HOLKHAM | Village in Norfolk that is the site of a vast Palladian-style house built to designs by William Kent, Matthew Brettingham and their patron Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (7) |
| AINTREE | Suburb of Liverpool that is the site of the racecourse over which the Grand National has been run since 1839 |
| ELGIN | A former royal burgh in the north (pop 25,000), the site of a ruined cathedral (5) |
| THEHAGUE | City in the Netherlands that is the site of the Dutch national parliament (3,5) |
| YTTERBY | Village in Vaxholm, Sweden that is the site of a quarry which yielded many unusual minerals containing rare earths and other elements (7) |
| MELROSE | Border town, the site of a ruined abbey refounded in the 12th century (7) |
| GODSTOW | In Oxfordshire, the site of a ruined abbey that housed an order of Benedictine nuns (7) |
| AGRA | City in northern India that is the site of the Taj Mahal (4) |
| STAFFA | Island in the Inner Hebrides that is the site of Fingal's Cave |
| TOBAGO | Caribbean island reputed to be the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe that is the site of Nylon Pool named by Princess Margaret (6) |
| TINTAGEL | Cornish village with a ruined castle identified by Geoffrey of Monmouth as the legendary birthplace of the "once and future king" Arthur (8) |
| IRIS | Genus of some 300 species of plants with showy flowers, taking its name from the Greek word for a rainbow (4) |
| ORLANDO | City in Florida, US that is the site of Walt Disney World (7) |