Across
- 1. first name of member of Richardson family connected with Elswick leatherworks: famous actor with starring roles in films including Dr Zhivago and Greystoke: Legend of Tarzan (5)
- 3. Centre - metro station on the way to the airport (6)
- 4. product manufactured by company owned by George Angus family who used to live in Benwell (6)
- 5. pub on Scotswood Road; one of several with names related to products made at Armstrongs/Vickers factory (5)
- 9. name given to the raiders along the English-Scottish border from the 13th-17th centuries (7)
- 10. town on the River Coquet in Northumberland (8)
- 11. Brian ....... - Newcastle-born journalist, and former presenter of Today programme on Radio 4 (7)
- 13. family name of dynasty of lords and bankers whose country seat is at Blagdon (6)
- 14. the R in the RVI (5)
- 15. who built the Wall? (6)
Down
- 1. country park in North Tyneside named after former pit on the site, managed by the mining engineer John Buddle who also owned Benwell colliery(6,3)
- 2. grammar school on West Road, founded in 1945; later became Westgate Community College (10)
- 6. first name of Grainger, the Newcastle builder and developer who used to live in Elswick Hall (7)
- 7. small furry animals often seen on the grass next to the Civic Centre especially at dusk (7)
- 8. engineering company based in east Newcastle that merged with Parsons in 1968 (8)
- 10. secondary school formed by the merger of John Marlay and Slatyford Schools; closed in 1994 (8)
- 12. one of Newcastle's bridges (8)
- 13. street in Byker; presumably named after aristocratic family who lived in medieval castle of same name in County Durham (4)
- 14. small town on the south side of the Tyne west of Blaydon (5)