| PENSHURSTPLACE | Historic house in Kent once home to the Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney |
| CHATHAM | Town in Kent once famous for its dockyard (7) |
| HULL | University at which the poet Philip Larkin was librarian (4) |
| LARKIN | English poet, Philip (1922-85) (6) |
| FOSS | Horatio G. ___ House (historic house in Auburn Maine) |
| OSTERLEY | Park, historic house in the London Borough of Hounslow, now a National Trust property (8) |
| OUST | Like, in the first part of the Bible, a house in Kent? (4) |
| KNOLE | Stately home in Kent, inhabited by the Sackvilles for some 400 years and often referred to as a calendar house for its legendary approximation of 365 rooms, 52 staircases, 12 entrances and seven court |
| MANCHESTER | City in New Hampshire (pop about 110,000), once home to the largest cotton mill in the world (10) |
| SOMERSET | - House; building on the Strand designed by William Chambers, once home to the Royal Academy (8) |
| BLENHEIM | --- Palace, historic house in Oxfordshire |
| STRONG | Former director of the V&A and also the National Portrait Gallery, author of books including The Artist and the Garden, A Country Life and The Elizabethan Image (6) |
| SHOETREE | Old actor with house in Kent - one doing a stretch in Oxford? |
| CHARTWELL | Country house in Kent, bought by Churchill in 1922 |
| CHEVENING | Country house in Kent traditionally used by the British Foreign Secretary (9) |
| CREMONA | City in the Po Valley of Italy, once home to the luthier families Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari (7) |
| QUEBEC | ____ House, childhood home in Kent of General James Wolfe (6) |
| SHEA | Stadium that was once home to the Mets and the Jets |
| HAWORTH | Village in West Yorkshire, once home to the Bronte family (7) |
| SPENSER | Edmund -; Elizabethan poet who wrote The Shephearde's Calendar and The Faerie Queene (7) |
