| HORACE | Walpole, say, in House, ahead of competition (6) |
| RUNINS | Seek office near unfinished public house ahead of some engagements (3-3) |
| KIROV | Drink first in opera-house, ahead of very famous ballet (5) |
| INSULT | At home ahead of us rejected lieutenant makes offensive remark |
| CARDS | Diamonds, say, in house of Netflix political thriller (5) |
| IGLOO | Returning US soldier meeting ladies, say, in house |
| INGENERAL | Usually home ahead of army officer (2,7) |
| CASTLE | The _ Of Otranto, 1764 Horace Walpole novel (6) |
| STERNE | Anglican vicar and novelist whose principal work was denounced by Dr. Johnson, Goldsmith, Walpole and others |
| GEORGE | First name of the king whose gifting of 10 Downing Street to Robert Walpole later resulted in it becoming the official residence of British prime ministers (6) |
| GIBBONS | Creator of the Carved Room at Petworth House and of a lime-wood cravat so realistic that its former owner Sir Horace Walpole wore it to greet visitors at Strawberry Hill (7) |
| RHAPSODY | "Have done with this ____ of impertinence" (Walpole, The Castle of Otranto) |
| OTRANTO | The Castle of ____, gothic novel by Horace Walpole published in 1764 (7) |
| JAMES | The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove author whose literary friends included Hugh Walpole, Edith Wharton and Constance Fenimore Woolson (5) |
| KINGS | Constituent college of the University of Cambridge whose alumni include Robert Walpole, Roger Fry, E. M. Forster and Alan Turing (5) |
| GRAY | Friend of Horace Walpole who wrote Ode on the Spring and Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (4) |
| HOUGHTON | - Hall; Palladian house in Norfolk originally built for Sir Robert Walpole whose piano nobile state rooms decorated by William Kent include a huge scallop-shell-crowned bed (8) |
| FRANKMUIR | Author of the Walpole Orange |
| MUIR | Frank ___, author of 1993 novel The Walpole Orange (4) |
| OLDLADIES | "The ... ...", 1924 novel by Hugh Walpole (3,6) |
