| DEBORAH | Youngest Mitford sister, who became the Duchess of Devonshire in 1941 (7) |
| EVELYN | First name of the Duchess of Devonshire who was the last lady of Hardwick Hall (6) |
| BEATRICE | Eugenie's elder sister, who became a mother in 2021 (8) |
| UNITY | Mitford sister who had the middle name Valkyrie (5) |
| MITFORD | Author of The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate whose youngest and fifth sister Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire lived at Chatsworth (7) |
| DEBO | Nickname of the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire who was the youngest of the six Mitford sisters (4) |
| DUCHESS | The ___, 2008 biopic starring Keira Knightley as Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire (7) |
| JESSICA | One of the Mitford sisters (7) |
| ONTARIO | Where in Canada is the town of Swastika, Where Unity Mitford, friend of Adolf Hitler, was conceived in 1913? (7) |
| GEORGIANA | --- Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire, the subject of paintings by Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Gainsborough (9) |
| SUNKING | Sobriquet of Louis XIV, a monarch written about by Nancy Mitford (3,4) |
| LOVEINA | Nancy Mitford novel, ... Cold Climate (4,2,1) |
| NANCY | Birthplace of Edmond de Goncourt and one of the Mitford sisters |
| PHONIER | More affected support involving Mitford aristo |
| PUDDING | see 12d, 1932 novel by Nancy Mitford |
| UNKNOWNQUANTITY | Mitford sister hosts celebrated designer Mary X perhaps (7,8) |
| CHATSWORTH | House a stately home near Bakewell in Derbyshire is the seat of the dukes of Devonshire |
| CAVENDISH | Family name of the Dukes of Devonshire (9) |
| CHATSWORTHHOUSE | Seat of the dukes of Devonshire |
| BANANA | With a cultivar named after William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, a yellow berry of the world's largest herb (6) |
