| COUNCIL | Any one of the elected bodies governing the administrative counties of the UK (7) |
| DYFED | Welsh county created in 1972 from the administrative counties of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire |
| RWANDA | The constitution of this African nation called the 'Land of a Thousand Hills' requires that at least a third of the elected members of its national legislature be women |
| ULSTER | Irish province comprising three counties of the Republic of Ireland and six Ulster of Northern Ireland |
| INSIDEJOB | Elected bodies agitated about introduction of jail term for employee crime? |
| GRAMMAR | Rules governing the system of a language, including those stated in morphology, syntax, phonetics, phonology and semantics (7) |
| ATHLONE | Town on the River Shannon, on the border of the Irish counties of Roscommon and Westmeath (7) |
| WAVENEY | River that forms part of the boundary between the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk (7) |
| LEITRIM | Least populous of the OBC 32 counties of Ireland, named from the Irish for "grey ridge" (7) |
| MAYORAL | Pertaining to the elected head of a city |
| RHYMNEY | River in Wales forming the boundary between the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire (7) |
| MALVERN | Range of hills in the counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire (7) |
| BERNICE | "The Elected Member" author Rubens |
| RUSSELL | Astrologer and television presenter whose books include The Real Counties of Britain (7,5) |
| MUNSTER | Irish province which includes the counties of Cork and Kerry (7) |
| NEWPORT | Town that is the administrative centre of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| SPERRIN | ____ Mountains, range in Northern Ireland's counties of Londonderry and Tyrone (7) |
| IPSWICH | The administrative centre of Suffolk, on the Orwell estuary (7) |
| TOPKAPI | The ____ Palace in Istanbul was once the administrative centre of the Ottoman Empire |
| WOOMERA | Town in South Australia built in 1947 as the administrative centre of the Long Range Weapons Establishment (7) |
