| PENSHURST | ___ Place; Henry VIII's hunting lodge, birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney in 1554 (9) |
| PENSHURSTPLACE | Historic mansion near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney (9,5) |
| GREVILLE | Sir Fulke, author of The Life of Sir Philip Sidney (8) |
| MARYTUDOR | The daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon; she married Philip II of Spain in 1554 (4,5) |
| LYONNESSE | In Arthurian legend, a mythical lost land, birthplace of Sir Tristan (9) |
| TAVISTOCK | Market town in Devon near the birthplace of Sir Francis Drake (9) |
| MOOSEHEAD | Hunting lodge trophy |
| ELIZABETHAN | Freely laze in bath, saving energy like Sir Philip Sidney |
| MAYERLINGINCIDENT | 43:A::Name given to the series of events surrounding the discovery of the bodies of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera in an imperial hunting lodge in Austria in 1 |
| WINCHESTER | Mary I married Philip II of Spain in this cathedral in 1554 |
| ARCADIA | Pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney |
| PHILIP | King of Spain, married to Mary I of England in 1554 (6) |
| SIDNEY | Born at Penshurst Place in 1554 and fatally wounded in battle 31 years later, a poet, soldier and courtier who wrote the pastoral prose romance Arcadia (6) |
| SAOPAULO | Large state capital in south-east Brazil (pop above 212 million), founded in 1554 (3,5) |
| GREY | Lady Jane, Queen of England who died in 1554 (4) |
| EASTSIDE | Sounds like E's over junction with Sidney in Dublin, in relation to rest of country (4,4) |
| BLENHEIM | - Palace; designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, Duke of Marlborough's seat at Woodstock near Oxford that was the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (8) |
| TARANAKI | Province which was the birthplace of Sir Peter Snell in 1938 (8) |
| BURY | Town in Greater Manchester on the River Irwell that is the birthplace of Sir Robert Peel |
| DARVEL | Town in East Ayrshire which is the birthplace of Sir Alexander Fleming (6) |
