| HOUGHTON | Hall that was built in the 1720s for Sir Robert Walpole (8) |
| MAHOGANY | The importation of what wood in the 1720s led to a revival of carving on English furniture? (8) |
| DOTHEBOYS | Hall that was Mr Squeers's school (9) |
| ROCOCO | From a French word denoting shell-covered pebble work ornamenting artificial grottoes, a term for a flamboyant style of architecture, decoration and furniture-making that emerged in Paris in the 1720s |
| HAIG | Brand of Scottish whisky founded in Clackmannan in the early 1720s (4) |
| RANDOLPH | The ____, luxury hotel in Oxford that was built in 1864 by William Wilkinson (8) |
| AVENTINE | Southernmost of the Seven Hills on which ancient Rome was built, in the district of Ripa (8) |
| BURGHLEY | With parkland and gardens largely designed by Capability Brown, a Tudor mansion in Cambridgeshire that was built for Elizabeth I's Lord High Treasurer (8) |
| STDAVIDS | Village-sized cathedral city in Pembrokeshire that was built on the site of a monastery founded by the patron saint of Wales (2,6) |
| BLENHEIM | This palace is located in Oxfordshire, England. It was built in 1705-24 by the English Parliament as a national gift to John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough. It is regarded as the finest example of |
| CHAINSAW | Portable power tool, usually petrol powered, although the first electric version was built in 1926 (8) |
| ARENA | Memphis sports teams play in one that was built in the shape of a 32-story pyramid |
| ERIE | New York canal that was built in the 19th century |
| BUCKLAND | Sir Robert __, secretary of state for Wales (at the time of writing) (8) |
| WALPOLE | Imprisoned in the Tower of London for some six months, a Kit-Cat Club member regarded as Britain's first prime minister, for whom Houghton Hall was built in the 1700s and whose son coined "serendipity |
| EDUCATED | "Slight Sir Robert with his watery smile And ... whisker." Tennyson, Edwin Morris (8) |
| HELPMANN | Name a renowned Australian ballet dancer, etc, Sir Robert ... (8) |
| HAGIASOPHIA | ___ former cathedral and mosque and currently a museum in Turkey that was built in AD 537 and is famous for its huge dome: 2 wds. |
| TAJMAHAL | Which grand mausoleum was built in honour of a woman who died giving birth to her 14th child? (3,5) |
| ANTOININE | This wall was an ancient Roman frontier barrier, extending about 36.5 miles (58.5 km) across Scotland between the River Clyde and the Firth of Forth. It was built in the years after 142 CE on the orde |
