| CASTLE | Type of fort or stronghold whose architectural elements were adapted into designs by Robert Adam (6) |
| WINDSOR | Meanders to middle of fort - or castle (7) |
| HARLECHCASTLE | Welsh stronghold whose siege inspired a noted military march (7,6) |
| COMPOSTS | Putting time into designs for English dresses (8) |
| BLANKETFORT | Stronghold whose "walls" might be dining room chairs |
| YLEM | In big-bang theory, the hypothetical primordial substance from which the chemical elements were formed (4) |
| HAHNIUM | ANC leaving human chain in disarray as elements were called earlier |
| NORTON | Mary -; author whose The Borrowers books were adapted into a television series with Ian Holm and Penelope Wilton (6) |
| BURLEY | Author whose Wycliffe novels were adapted into a television drama (6) |
| PEYTON | Author of a number of books for children and young people, including Apple Won't Jump, Fly-by-Night, A Pattern of Roses, The Scruffy Pony as well as her classic Flambards novels that were adapted to s |
| WESLEY | Author from Devon whose novels including Jumping the Queue, The Camomile Lawn and Harnessing Peacocks were adapted to screen (6) |
| EIFFEL | Gustave ___, French structural engineer who built the Statue of Liberty to a design by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (6) |
| MURALS | Art incorporating architectural elements |
| SCONCE | Small fort or earthwork, especially to defend a bridge, pass, etc. |
| PLANET | Design by alien for a body in space (6) |
| WEIRDO | Strange individual Dior design by the Financial Times (6) |
| PLANER | Machine design by engineer having no substance (6) |
| FRIEZE | Architectural element often decorated with bas-reliefs |
| ACACES | Thames Ditton sports classics based on a design by John Tojeiro (2,4) |
| MANNING | Author whose Fortunes of War novels were adapted into a series with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson (7) |
