2 Surprise weapon used by Drake against the Spanish invasion fleet in 1588. (9)
  4 Tudor buildings made from a wooden frame with wattle-and-daub panels.(4,8)
  9 A young person being trained for several years by a qualified person. (10)
11 Coins have been made here since Tudor times. (5,4)
12 First grown in the West Indies by Spanish settlers, it's very sweet. (5,4)

  1 Famous Elizabethan playwright, he wrote Hamlet and Macbeth. (11)
  3 The process of keeping food over a period of time so it does not rot. (12)
  5 Defence force of ships started by King Henry VII. (5,4)
  6 They believe the leader of their Church is the Pope, living in Rome. (9)
  7 Men who bought and sold goods, often travelling to far-off countries. (9)
  8 In Tudor and Stuart times, a thief who would hold up and rob travellers. (10)
10 William Shakespeare was born in .........-upon-Avon in 1564. (9)