| BRASILIA | World capital designated a Unesco World Heritage Site due to its modernist architecture |
| FRANKLIN | Over which river did the High Court in 1983 determine the Australian Government had the constitutional power to stop construction of a controversial dam due to its UNESCO World Heritage status? (8) |
| BAUHAUSMOVEMENT | Design philosophy that had a profound influence on modernist architecture |
| TAPER | From the Latin word "papyrus" due to its use as a wick, a candle in Anglo-Saxon times, later a thin waxed spill; or, a gradual narrowing (5) |
| AVIV | Tel ?, Israeli city whose White City area was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its Bauhaus architecture |
| HEADSMASHED | This rather forthrightly named site, near Fort Macleod in Alberta, is a cliff over which hunters chased buffalo; it was used for 6,000 years. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1981. It |
| LUNENBURG | The Old Town of this place in southeastern Nova Scotia was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995. Its site was originally inhabited by First Nations peoples, but Oliver Cromwell handed it ov |
| PERSEPOLIS | Ruined ancient capital in Iran designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979 (10) |
| VERSAILLES | Gardens in a city near Paris designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site (10) |
| QUITO | Capital city of Ecuador, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1978 (5) |
| MIESVANDERROHE | Ludwig --, one of the pioneers of modernist architecture (4,3,3,4) |
| VETCH | Common -; scrambling purplish wildflower and forage crop on the RHS "perfect for pollinators" list, used as a soil fertiliser due to its ability to make its own nitrates (5) |
| PITBULL | Name for a type of dog descended from bulldogs and terriers that has (unfairly, according to some) a "dangerous" reputation due to its use in dogfighting (7) |
| SELENIUM | Element named by Berzelius after a Greek word for "moon" due to its similarity to tellurium, named after a Latin word for "Earth" (8) |
| RHOMBUS | Calisson- or lozenge-shaped parallelogram known as a diamond due to its resemblance to said shape represented on a playing card (7) |
| AGRIMONY | From Greek for "poppy", thought due to its ancient use as a sedative, a plant with spikes of yellow flowers, hence its other names including church steeples, fairy wand and sticklewort (8) |
| RAGWORT | Yellow wild flower considered a weed due to its toxicity to livestock and horses (7) |
| THECHEESEGRATER | Nickname for London's Leadenhall Building due to its resemblance to a certain kitchen utensil |
| LUDWIGMIES | German-American pioneer of modernist architecture |
| ADOLF | ___ Loos, theorist of modernist architecture |
