| STEVENAGE | Town in North Hertfordshire, the first of the New Towns created in 1946 (9) |
| MILTONKEYNES | Largest of England's "new towns" created in the 1960s, located in Buckinghamshire (6,6) |
| LETCHWORTH | Town in north Hertfordshire that was Britain's first garden city |
| PETERLEE | Town in County Durham founded in 1948 under the New Towns Act (8) |
| ROYSTON | Town in North Hertfordshire (7) |
| ESSEX | Historic English county that contains the new towns of Basildon and Harlow (5) |
| TRANSMIT | Send first of the new trams in (8) |
| STEPFORD | Creepy town created by Ira Levin |
| MARCH | Month that was the first of the new year in early 3-Down calendars |
| EDINBURGH | This Scottish capital city's aesthetic and political heart still lies in its small historic core, comprising the Old Town and the New Town. The medieval Old Town and the Neoclassical New Town were des |
| KNEBWORTH | --- House, mansion in Hertfordshire, the former home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (9) |
| HEMELHEMPSTEAD | The Spanish, caught in double bind, cunningly pasted the new town (5,9) |
| KNEBWORTHHOUSE | Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire; the former home of Sir Edward Bulwer-lytton (9,5) |
| TALENTS | The skills shown in tales about the New Town primarily (7) |
| NORTHBRIDGE | Structure built in 1897 to link the old and new towns of Edinburgh (5,6) |
| UNESCO | Agency created in 1946 to promote international collaboration in education, science and culture (6) |
| UNICEF | Which organisation devoted to the young was created in 1946? (6) |
| THEMOUND | Slope in Edinburgh connecting the old and new towns (3,5) |
| TELFORD | Rod felt awkward in the new town (7) |
| SAS | Airline created in 1946 |
