| HOLKHAM | ___ Hall; seat of the Earls of Leicester in Norfolk, originally designed by William Kent for Thomas Coke in the 1700s (7) |
| HOUGHTON | - Hall; Palladian house in Norfolk originally built for Sir Robert Walpole whose piano nobile state rooms decorated by William Kent include a huge scallop-shell-crowned bed (8) |
| ROBERT | The earl of Leicester suspected of murdering his first wife, Amy Robsart, in 1560 (6,6) |
| DUDLEY | The earl of Leicester suspected of murdering his first wife, Amy Robsart, in 1560 (6,6) |
| KENILWORTH | Historical novel by Sir Walter Scott featuring Amy Robsart and the Earl of Leicester (10) |
| WILTON | - House; situated in Wiltshire near the confluence of the rivers Wylye and Nadder, seat of the Earls of Pembroke since its granting by Henry VIII to Sir William Herbert in 1544 (6) |
| GLAMIS | Castle in the heart of Angus, ancestral seat of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne since 1372, childhood home of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (6) |
| DOWNTON | - Abbey; fictional seat of the Earls of Grantham in Julian Fellowes' drama filmed at Highclere Castle (7) |
| SCONEPALACE | Home, near Perth in Scotland, of the Earls of Mansfield since the early 1600s (5,6) |
| HIGHCLERE | Hampshire castle, seat of the Earls of Carnarvon (9) |
| GLENARMCASTLE | The ancestral home of the Earls of Antrim (7,6) |
| STOWE | Designed by architects including John Vanbrugh, James Gibbs, William Kent and Robert Adam, the historical country seat of the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos (5) |
| DARNHALL | Small village south-west of Winsford; it was an ancient hunting ground for the Norman earls of Chester; now it is home to one of the telescopes in the Jodrell Bank network (8) |
| ROUSHAM | Country house in Oxfordshire remodelled by William Kent along with its garden which contains the latter's "Eyecatcher" folly and also statues by Peter Scheemakers (7) |
| STRAWBERRIES | Portrayed with purloining thrushes in a pattern designed by William Morris and with leaves represented on the coronets of dukes, earls and marquesses, fruits or "fraises" often sold in punnets (12) |
| HIGHCLERECASTLE | Hampshire stately home owned by the Earls of Carnarvon (9,6) |
| ALINE | Originally designed by Christian Dior in the 1950s, a style or silhouette of skirt characterised by a narrow waist widening to a full hem (1-4) |
| TUBE | The ___; nickname of London's rapid transport system with a map originally designed by Harry Beck in 1931 (4) |
| MENTMORE | - Towers; house in Buckinghamshire originally designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Rothschild family (8) |
| FAD | Originally designed by the Dutch, wooden clogs became an American ___ in the '70s |
