| POTTERIES | The six towns of Stoke on Trent collectively, where Burleigh, Doulton, Mintons, Wedgwood and Spode flourished in the 19th century (9) |
| JOSIAH | Forename of the potters Wedgwood and Spode |
| ORLEANS | One of six towns of the Cape Cod National Seashore |
| BURSLEM | A town of Stoke-on-Trent and the birthplace of the pottery designer Josiah Wedgwood (7) |
| PLAQUES | Commemorative blue signs issued by English Heritage, originally by the Society of Arts and handmade by Mintons (7) |
| FENTON | A deer-chasing dog of a 2011 viral video; one of Stoke-on-Trent’s six towns |
| BESTRIDING | Dominating with top performance at Burleigh? |
| SPITTER | Burleigh Grimes pitch |
| PALISSY | 16th-century French potter whose works became inspiration for Minton's Victorian majolica (7) |
| THEPOTTERIES | Collective term for six towns which were the centre of ceramic production in England in the early 17th Century (3,9) |
| STAFFORD | Town situated north of the Black Country and Wolverhampton, south of Stoke-on-Trent (8) |
| ETRURIA | Ancient region of central Italy, also a suburb of Stoke-on-Trent |
| NEWCASTLEUNDERLYME | Staffordshire town which resisted two 20th-century attempts to add it to the county borough of Stoke-on-Trent |
| HAVERGALBRIAN | Composer born in Dresden (a district of Stoke-on-Trent) |
| SPODE | Used to serve royalty and recovered from the wreck of RMS Titanic, a brand of china founded by a potter from Stoke-on-Trent who first used the blue willow pattern (5) |
| HACKNEY | Borough of NE London that incorporates the former boroughs of Stoke Newington and Shoreditch (7) |
| STONE | Station on the Stafford to Stoke-on-Trent branch (5) |
| ASSIST | When my sister, who lives with her two daughters on the outskirts of Stoke Abbot, fell ill, I went round to help out (6) |
| BONECHINA | Strong white porcelain invented by Josiah Spode at the end of the 18th century |
| STAFFS | Rods or the county in which Stoke-On-Trent lies (in short) (6) |
