| BROMSGROVE | Worcestershire town, birthplace of the poet A E Housman (10) |
| TABARD | Thanks to the poet, a herald's tunic is produced (6) |
| KETTERING | Northamptonshire town, birthplace of the comedian Hugh Dennis (9) |
| WEYBRIDHE | Surrey town, birthplace of the conductor Colin Davis (9) |
| INVERNESS | Scottish town, birthplace of the politician Yvette Cooper |
| CLUNGUNFORD | One of the four villages which "are the quietest places under the sun", according to A.E. Housman (11) |
| RUGBYENGLAND | Market-town birthplace of a style of football |
| LOVELIEST | '___ of trees, the cherry now, Is hung with bloom along the bough': A.E. Housman |
| ONWENLOCKEDGE | A song cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams that consists of settings of poems by A.E. Housman (2,7,4) |
| LAD | 'A Shropshire --', series of nostalgic verses by A. E. Housman (3) |
| ASHROPSHIRELAD | Series of poems by A. E. Housman (1,10,3) |
| ALLOWAY | A small village just south of Ayr, birthplace of the poet Robert Burns (7) |
| WANTAGE | Oxfordshire market town, birthplace of Alfred the Great |
| VINCI | Tuscan town, birthplace of a famous Renaissance polymath (5) |
| ALE | 'The stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think': A.E. Housman |
| ALES | "___ the stuff to drink / For fellows whom it hurts to think": A.E. Housman |
| BREDON | In summertime on / The bells they sound so clear (A. E. Housman) |
| LUDLOW | Shropshire resting-place of A. E. Housman |
| BRIGG | Small Lincolnshire market town, birthplace of Dame Joan Plowright (5) |
| ARRAS | Medieval French tapestry town, birthplace of Maximilien Robespierre (5) |
