| HEIRS | Shire (anag)(5) |
| HIRES | Rents; shire (anag.) (5) |
| ANNAN | Dumfries-shire river (5) |
| REEVE | Shire functionary of medieval England (5) |
| COUNT | An equal to Earl Peel, the last of the shire (5) |
| HIRER | Pays for employing Shire horse with no shoes (5) |
| FRESH | Enjoyed by walkers outdoors in shire far removed (5,3) |
| MERRY | One of the Tolkienian Hobbits of The Shire with Bilbo, Frodo, Pippin and Samwise; word meaning cheerful, festive, jolly or tipsy; or, a name for the English wild cherry (5) |
| DERBY | An American bowler for an English shire (5) |
| BILBO | Forename of a hobbit who lived at Bag End, Hobbiton, The Shire (5) |
| BRASS | An amulet or charm in the form of a bell, heart, moon, star, sun-flash etc for the harness of a shire or similar draught animal; or, the copper alloy used to make said ornament (5) |
| TWEED | Murwillumbah is located in which northern NSW shire (5) |
| HORSE | Cavalry collectively; a "buck" for gymnastically vaulting over; a clothes airer; an equid such as a cob, hack, hunter or shire; or, the male of said animal, as opposed to a mare (5) |
| SHIER | More retiring to parts of the shire (5) |
| SIEGE | Military operation, for example, held in shire intermittently (5) |
| LOVAT | Muted green colour used in tweed and woollen garments, named after an old settlement in Inverness-shire (5) |
| TALIA | Ms Shire, star of Rocky and The Godfather films (5) |
| BOXER | The shire horse of Animal Farm |
| FRODO | Traveler from the Shire to Mount Doom |
| SHIRE | Shortlived reality drama about Sydney's Sutherland Shire (The -----) |
