| PENSHURSTPLACE | Historic mansion near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney (9,5) |
| PENSHURST | - Place; Henry VIII's hunting lodge, birthplace of Sir Philip Sidney in 1554 (9) |
| EDENBRIDGE | Town in Kent, birthplace of the organist Sir Walter Galpin Alcock (10) |
| EXILE | One banished from historic mansion leaving quietly? (5) |
| ELMS | Historic mansion in Newport, R.I., with "the" |
| BLENHEIMPALACE | Country house in Oxfordshire; the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (8,6) |
| LANCASTERHOUSE | Mansion near St James's Palace that was the scene of an agreement in 1979 granting Rhodesia independence from the United Kingdom |
| ELIZABETHAN | Freely laze in bath, saving energy like Sir Philip Sidney |
| ARCADIA | Pastoral romance by Sir Philip Sidney |
| BLENHEIM | Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire; the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill (8) |
| HIGHROCKS | Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest two miles west of Tunbridge Wells, with a station on the Spa Valley Railway |
| STEAMTIGHT | Disgruntled at times about the origin of Tunbridge Wells? 11 in another state (10) |
| PANTILES | Underwear left in part of Tunbridge Wells (8) |
| CRANBROOK | Small town east of Royal Tunbridge Wells (9) |
| EASTGRINSTEAD | Town in West Sussex west of Royal Tunbridge Wells (4,9) |
| DWELLING | Brutes are tossed out of the Tunbridge Wells' house (8) |
| TAVISTOCK | Market town in Devon near the birthplace of Sir Francis Drake (9) |
| BANTU | It's spoken in urban Tunbridge Wells (5) |
| WADHURST | Station and tunnel between Tunbridge Wells and St Leonards (8) |
| BURGHLEYHOUSE | Elizabethan mansion near Stamford in Lincolnshire, seat of the Cecil family (8,5) |
