| ROSSONWYE | Herefordshire town with a red sandstone market house |
| NEWENT | Gloucestershire market town, with black and white half-timbered buildings including the market house |
| SINCLAIR | English electrical engineer, inventor of the UK's first mass-market home computer and a battery electric vehicle (8) |
| LEOMINSTER | Sign I'm struggling with rents in Herefordshire town (10) |
| SEDONA | City in Arizona known for its red sandstone |
| LEOMINOR | Herefordshire town somehow set out to bring in old stars (3,5) |
| PETRA | Jordanian site of red sandstone ruins |
| HOY | The Old Man of ---, red sandstone sea stack in Orkney (3) |
| KINGTON | Herefordshire town on River Arrow (anag. of ' gin knot') (7) |
| LEDBURY | Swimming ruled by Herefordshire town (7) |
| ORS | Old Red Sandstone |
| HAYONWYE | Town just within the Welsh border with Herefordshire (3-2-3) |
| GOODRICH | Remains of a medieval castle in Herefordshire (8) |
| CIDER | Drink linked with Somerset and Herefordshire (5) |
| OASTS | Kilns for drying hops in the farm buildings that form a distinctive feature of the landscapes of counties including Kent, Sussex and Herefordshire (5) |
| NICHE | Specialised area in scenic Herefordshire (5) |
| ESTHER | Book set in West Herefordshire (6) |
| NIGHTINGALE | Soprano Jenny Lind, b. Stockholm 1798, d. Herefordshire 1887 (7,11) |
| SWEDISH | Soprano Jenny Lind, b. Stockholm 1798, d. Herefordshire 1887 (7,11) |
| MALVERN | Range of hills in the counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire (7) |
