| ANTHRAX | Bacteria the subject of experimentation on Gruinard island off the northwest cost (7) |
| ANGLESEY | Island off the northwest coast of Wales, Ynys Mon in Welsh (8) |
| GUINEAPIG | Pet subject of experimentation (6,3) |
| TORTUGA | Island in the Caribbean, formerly a haunt of pirates, off the NW coast of Haiti (7) |
| LOFOTEN | Archipelago off the northwest coast of Norway |
| ARUBA | Island off the NW coast of Venezuela that was part of the Netherlands Antilles until 1986 (5) |
| LABUAN | Island off the NW coast of Borneo in the South China Sea forming a federal territory of Malaysia; capital, Victoria (6) |
| LOFOTENISLANDS | Archipelago off the northwest coast of Norway, within the Arctic Circle (7,7) |
| INVENTS | Creates as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation. (7) |
| SCIENCE | Some experimentation will take place in this school subject (7) |
| LESBOS | Greek island off the NW coast of Turkey whose capital is Mytilene (6) |
| CANARIES | A group of mountainous islands in the Atlantic off the northwest coast of Africa forming Spanish pro |
| WHITESEA | Body of water in the Arctic Ocean off the northwest coast of Russia (5,3) |
| GRENADE | Explosive green had DNA subjected to experimentation (4,7) |
| REMINISCE | Talk about the old days, about short skirts, clubs, and start of experimentation (9) |
| TESTBAN | Preclusion of H-bomb experimentation (4,3) |
| HEBRIDES | The ___, archipelago of over 500 islands off the NW coast of Scotland (8) |
| NORTHUIST | Scottish island, ___ ___, off the NW coast of the mainland - in truth, so unusual (5, 4) |
| RIM | The very edge of experimentation (3) |
| FINDING | Experimentation |