| CASTAWAY | Any one of the "shipwrecked" guests on BBC Radio 4's Desert island Discs whose past examples include Princess Margaret and Sir David Attenborough (8) |
| POSTAGESTAMPS | The Penny Black and Inverted Jenny are noted past examples (7,6) |
| GYROSCOPE | Device with a rotating disc whose axis remains stable |
| PRECEDENT | Past example to go in front of book (9) |
| TENSE | 'Strained' is a past example (5) |
| REDSEA | Site of the shipwrecked SS Thistlegorm |
| FARNEISLANDS | Archipelago from which Grace Darling and her father conducted a rescue operation to save survivors of the shipwrecked vessel Forfarshire (5,7) |
| KEARNEY | Martha ___, Dublin-born journalist and broadcaster who was the main presenter of BBC Radio 4's The World at One for 11 years |
| LIDDLE | Rod ___, journalist who is an associate editor of The Spectator and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme |
| AVES | Class of vertebrates whose farmland examples include the corn bunting, skylark, yellowhammer, grey partridge, linnet and lapwing (4) |
| STEVEWRIGHT | English radio broadcaster who presented his show in the Afternoon for 12 years on BBC Radio 1 and 23 years on BBC Radio 2 (5,6) |
| STEVEJONES | Welsh geneticist who was the 1991 Reith Lecturer on BBC Radio, with a series entitled The Language of the Genes |
| SNELL | Lynda -; Carole Boyd's character in BBC Radio 4's soap opera The Archers (5) |
| ERIC | Cumbrian farmer - - - - Robson, former principal chair of BBC Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time (4) |
| HUSAIN | Mishal, TV news presenter and co-host of BBC Radio 4's Today (6) |
| FILMNOIR | Hollywood genre whose examples include The Third Man and Double Indemnity (4,4) |
| EAT | Verb whose past tense is formed by moving the first letter to the end |
| ADIE | Journalist, Kate, who presents BBC Radio 4's weekly programme From Our Own Correspondent (4) |
| GRUNDY | Family on Radio 4's The Archers whose members include Eddie (Trevor Harrison) and his wife Clarrie (Heather Bell) (6) |
| GRACE | First name of the girl who helped rescue survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire in 1838 with her light housekeeper father William Darling (5) |
