| KNEBWORTHHOUSE | Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire, home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (9,5) |
| KNEBWORTH | -- House, Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire, home of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (9) |
| HOUSE | and 19dn, Tudor mansion in Hertfordshire, home of the Lytton family, that has hosted major rock concerts since 1974 (9,5) |
| IONE | Heroine in The Last Days of Pompeii by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| PELHAM | Prime minister from 1743-54; Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel; or, a type of bit (6) |
| POMPEII | The Last Days of ___, novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (7) |
| EUGENEARAM | English murderer celebrated in a ballad by Thomas Hood and a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| SWORD | 'The pen is mightier than the ___' (Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, 1839) (5) |
| RIENZI | Opera by Richard Wagner based on a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (6) |
| HEVER | --- Castle, Tudor mansion in Kent, home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage (5) |
| HEVERCASTLE | A Tudor mansion in Kent; home of Anne Boleyn before her marriage (5,6) |
| PEN | Enclosure such as a dry-stone sheepfold; female swan; or, a device mightier than the sword, according to writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton (3) |
| SYON | Tudor mansion in Middlesex that was remodelled by Robert Adam in the 1760s for his patron, Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (4) |
| VRIL | Edward Bulwer-Lytton's word for life force or energy in The Coming Race, that survives in the name of a brand of meat extract, used for beef tea (4) |
| BARRINGTON | Village in Somerset, site of a Tudor mansion that was dressed to represent Cardinal Wolsey's home in the historical drama Wolf Hall (10) |
| BURGHLEY | With parkland and gardens largely designed by Capability Brown, a Tudor mansion in Cambridgeshire that was built for Elizabeth I's Lord High Treasurer (8) |
| SHERBORNE | Market town in Dorset with a Tudor mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh next to the ruins of a 12th-century castle (9) |
| IRE | The hot temper of Sir Edward? Yes, back from Eriskay (3) |
| BLENHEIM | - Palace; birthplace and ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill (8) |
| RESIDENCE | It's the home of Sir E Dence (9) |
