| RIAD | Traditional Moroccan house built around a central courtyard or garden (4) |
| KHAN | Type of Middle Eastern caravanserai or inn for travellers, built around a central courtyard (4) |
| RIADS | From the Arabic meaning "gardens", traditional Moroccan houses built around courtyards (5) |
| ATRIUM | A central courtyard gives it a rum twist (6) |
| QUAD | A university courtyard or a large muscle of the leg |
| QUAIDORSAY | One settling in courtyard -- or, for instance, a Paris street (4,1'5) |
| COHORS | Courtyard or more commonly, regiment of a legion |
| HULL | Structure built around a keel |
| TARA | Fictional house "built according to no architectural plan whatever" |
| VILLAGE | Historically known as a thorp, a settlement bigger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, often based around a central green and a pub (7) |
| JOST | Historic Sydney house built 1786 |
| FALLINGWATER | Frank Lloyd Wright house built around multiple cascades, and what's literally found in this puzzle's circles |
| HAMLET | Settlement smaller than a village, often consisting of a cluster of rural cottages around a central farm (6) |
| CYCLES | Sequences of poems, stories, matters, operas or mystery plays composed around a central theme (6) |
| PAPERMILL | Capsule built around a permanent manufacturing plant (5,4) |
| ROUNDABOUT | Traffic circulates around a central island in what type of road junction? (10) |
| ROUNDHOUSE | A building for the servicing and repair of locomotives that is built around a turntable (10) |
| FENCE | It's built around a yard for privacy |
| ALLOWS | Authorises walls to be built around a circuit |
| CANBERRA | Capital city of Australia, built around a large artificial lake (8) |
