| HAMPTONCOURT | Tudor palace in the London borough of Richmond noted for its hedge maze (7,5) |
| NONSUCH | Former Tudor palace in Surrey |
| GATE | -house; building at the entrance of a Tudor palace or later a country estate that developed from that of a castle (4) |
| STAMFORDHILL | Suburb in the London borough of Hackney noted for its Hasidic community (8,4) |
| TWICKENHAM | Town in the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames; base of the Rugby Football Union (10) |
| MORTLAKE | District of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; finishing point of the University Boat Race |
| PLEASUREDOME | Palace in the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan (8,4) |
| SCOTCHCORNER | Junction of the A1 and A66 trunk roads north-east of Richmond, North Yorkshire (6,6) |
| SWISSCOTTAGE | Area in the London Borough of Camden named after a pub (5,7) |
| STMARGARETS | Suburb in the London Borough of Richmond (2,9) |
| GOLDERSGREEN | Area in the London Borough of Barnet (7,5) |
| CIVIL | The fall of Richmond was a critical event that marked the beginnning of the end of the ___ War |
| HONOLULU | Capital that's the site of the only royal palace in the United States ("Star Wars") |
| LANCASTERHOUSE | Stand-in for Buckingham Palace in the film The King's Speech |
| OAHU | Island which is the location of the only royal palace in the United States (4) |
| SHRUB | General name for one of the main types of plant used for topiary, hedge mazes or knot gardens such as those at Chateau de Villandry (5) |
| MILLHILL | Suburb in the London Borough of Barnet with a tube station on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line |
| BRENT | Major tributary of the River Thames rising in the London Borough of Barnet |
| WORMWOODSCRUBS | Prison in the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham built by convict labour in the 1870s (8,6) |
| ERITH | Former municipal borough of Kent now in the London Borough of Bexley |
