| BURGHLEY | ___ House, Lincolnshire country residence built for William Cecil in the late 16th century (8) |
| HATFIELD | House in Hertfordshire built for Robert Cecil in 1611, home to the Rainbow portrait of Elizabeth I bearing the motto Non sine sole iris (no rainbow without the sun) (8) |
| VYNE | The -; Tudor house in Hampshire built for William Sandys (4) |
| WINDSOR | Market town in Berkshire, home to a castle originally built for William the Conqueror (7) |
| LICENSE | Permission for Cecil in France maybe (7) |
| PLASMAWR | Elizabethan manor in Conwy, North Wales, built in the late 16th century (4,4) |
| ESCORIAL | Spanish royal palace near Madrid built by order of King Philip II in the late 16th century (8) |
| WARE | Great Bed of ____, huge one built by a Hertfordshire carpenter in the late 16th century (4) |
| SNITCH | What word for an informer arose in the late 16th century? (6) |
| ELIZAB | Like England in the late 16th century |
| GREENSLEEVES | English folk song originating in the late 16th Century (12) |
| VILLAGER | One of those in Hamlet has large country residence in the middle of Nigeria (8) |
| CHEQUERS | The official country residence of the prime minister of the UK (8) |
| ELIZABETHAN | England in the late sixteenth century (11) |
| WINDSORCASTLE | Royal residence built by William the Conqueror in the 11th Century (7,6) |
| CIVILLAW | Country residence in Guernsey, perhaps, with certain rules |
| CHILDREN | Country residence for Doctor Newton's kids |
| SAFESEAT | Place to put money with country residence - what every politician wants? (4,4) |
| NONSUCH | ? Palace, royal residence built for Henry VIII on the Epsom road near Ewell, Surrey (7) |
| VERSAILLES | City near Paris that is the site of an elaborate royal residence built for Louis XIV |
