| YOSEMITE | I eye Tom's contraption in a Californian National Park (8) |
| CAPACITY | Get the measure of dad in a Californian large town (8) |
| NICE | Quote from 15 novel incestuous, yet I eye no "cooee!" (4,2,3,3,2,3,3,4) |
| DRAFTEES | Conscripts beginning to sink on floating contraption in river (8) |
| PLENTIFUL | Ten fill up contraption in abundance |
| OPERATING | Ring for each giant contraption in use (9) |
| PASADENA | A blue in US prison linked with a Californian city (8) |
| CAMOMILE | A relative of Daisy's, with a Californian mother, gets 50% of lock-up premises in Clare (8) |
| BERKELEY | What name links a Californian campus to a London square? (8) |
| PALOALTO | Accomplice with loot on the loose round a Californian city |
| STANFORD | Strange strand of a Californian university |
| SEQUOIA | Californian national forest named after the giant redwood (7) |
| IMP | This Hillman got a Californian derivative in the late 1960s (3) |
| MINX | A Californian version of this Hillman arrived in 1953 (4) |
| ABIGGERSPLASH | A noted 1967 Pop Art painting of a Californian swimming pool by David Hockney (1,6,6) |
| CREST | 1980s US soap set around a Californian winery, Falcon ___ (5) |
| MALIBU | Type of surfboard named after a Californian beach |
| LASAGNE | ...(dish giving a Californian guru gas) (7) |
| CERROGORDO | A Californian town with abandoned mines (5,5) |
| LAPUP | Love of a Californian dog? (3,2) |
