| GIBBS | Working at Stowe House after John Vanbrugh's death in 1726, architect who designed the Radcliffe Camera, Oxford and St Martin-in-the-Fields, London (5) |
| HOWARD | Castle -; dramatist John Vanbrugh's first foray into architecture whose grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and Yorkshire Arboretum (6) |
| NICHOLAS | Forename of Sir Christopher Wren or Sir John Vanbrugh's collaborator known as the "devil's architect" for his use of satanic or pagan symbols (8) |
| KENT | William -; architect who designed the gardens at Stowe House and popularised the Palladian style in England (4) |
| MONTEVIDEO | Capital city in South America (pop about 1.3 million), founded in 1726 (10) |
| SWIFT | Jonathan ___, Anglo-Irish novelist who wrote Gulliver's Travels in 1726 (5) |
| LILLIPUT | Land of tiny people in 1726 Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (8) |
| YAHOO | One of a race of brutal humans in 1726 Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels (5) |
| JONATHANSWIFT | Anglo-Irish author and clergyman noted for his novel Gulliver's Travels published in 1726 (8,5) |
| LAPUTA | Flying island in 1726 Jonathan Swift novel Gulliver's Travels |
| ALESSANDRO | Opera by George Handel, first performed in 1726 (10) |
| ACTS | After John tells stories in new book, plays at the gate for one (4) |
| CATTE | Oxford's ____ Street passes the Radcliffe Camera and the Bodleian Library |
| CEDUNA | Near which town on the eastern Great Australian Bight is the Nuyts Archipelago, the location Swift used as the model for his lands of Lilliput and Blefuscu in Gulliver's Travels (1726) |
| TRENTBRIDGE | A bowler may approach from the Radcliffe Road End of this cricket ground |
| TOMMYGUN | What weapon was named by its designer after John T Thompson, the American army officer who conceived the idea for it? (5,3) |
| AIRPORT | Construction named after John Lennon in Liverpool and George Best in Belfast |
| OXFORD | University city, site of the Radcliffe Camera (6) |
| HIGHHEELSANDLOWHEELS | In Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726), what satirical names are given to the two factions in |
| TBAR | Lift at Stowe |
