| LONGFORD | ____ Castle, stately home in Wiltshire and seat of the Earl of Radnor |
| RIDGEWAY | The ___, prehistoric route atop the downs in Wiltshire and Berkshire (8) |
| BELVOIR | ? Castle, stately home in Leicestershire; seat of the Duke of Rutland |
| HOWARD | Castle -; stately home in York designed by Sir John Vanbrugh where a television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited was filmed (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) |
| 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) |
| LOWTHER | ? Castle, former family seat of the Earl of Londsdale south of Penrith, Cumbria (7) |
| LONGLEAT | ____ House, stately home in Wiltshire that is the seat of the Marquess of Bath (8) |
| HOLKHAM | - Hall; seat of the Earls of Leicester in Norfolk, originally designed by William Kent for Thomas Coke in the 1700s (7) |
| DUNROBIN | Scottish castle, family seat of the Earl of Sutherland (8) |
| STRASBOURG | Capital of the Alsace region of France and seat of the Council of Europe |
| DOWNTON | - Abbey; fictional seat of the Earls of Grantham in Julian Fellowes' drama filmed at Highclere Castle (7) |
| EDWARD | Forename of the Earl of Wessex, the youngest of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's four children (6) |
| WHISTLER | Painter and illustrator whose notable works include a depiction of Ashcombe House (his friend Cecil Beaton's former home in Wiltshire), a 58ft-long mural in the dining room at Plas Newydd and a mural |
| OMAHA | City of Nebraska and seat of the Creighton University (5) |
| RANGIORA | Largest town and seat of the Waimakariri District, in Canterbury (8) |
| CAPE | ___ Town, legislative capital and seat of the parliament of South Africa (4) |
| EDGAR | In Shakespeare's King Lear, who is the legitimate son of the Earl of Gloucester? (5) |
| PROTHALAMION | Spousal verse by Edmund Spenser, in honour of two daughters of the Earl of Worcester |
| ANNEHYDE | Daughter of the Earl of Clarendon who married James, Duke of York, in 1660 (4,4) |
