| MANFRED | Usurper in "The Castle of Otranto" |
| STARK | House in Game Of Thrones whose members live in the castle of Winterfell (5) |
| NEWARK | In 1216, King John died in the castle of this Trentside town (6) |
| MONICKER | Handle report of Hillary's usurper in the White House |
| NAPOLEON | Usurper in Moscow once, shot on plane back to Pulkovo |
| WALPOLE | Author of The Castle of Otranto and some 7,000 letters who was the youngest son of Britain's de facto first prime minister and created Strawberry Hill House (7) |
| HORACEWALPOLE | Author of the novel The Castle of Otranto (6,7) |
| RHAPSODY | "Have done with this ____ of impertinence" (Walpole, The Castle of Otranto) |
| GOTHIC | Literary genre thought to have originated with The Castle of Otranto |
| CASTLE | The ___ of Otranto gothic novel by Horace Walpole which tells the story of Manfred and his family |
| ALB | It's across the Strait of Otranto from It. |
| ADRIATIC | The Strait of Otranto connects to it |
| KENT | 'Garden of England', site of the 'castle of queens, queen of castles' and much of the North Downs (4) |
| CAITHNESS | Historic county in Scotland's north, site of the Castle of Mey, a former residence of the Queen Mother (9) |
| RULER | Has the measure of most things in the castle (5) |
| CATON | Played Uncle Harry in The Sullivans and Darryl Kerrigan in The Castle (Michael -----) |
| KEEPONESWORD | What loyalist said he'd do in The Castle for individuals for part of the sentence (4,3'1,4) |
| KEEPER | In the castle, you are met with hesitation but in the zoo, you are wanted (6) |
| RETOOK | The alien in the castle was captured again (6) |
| ROOK | The bird in the castle (4) |
