| LESBOS | Island the French shed tears over (6) |
| RELATE | Tell how the French shed a tear (6) |
| CRAGGY | Shed tears over a horse - the rocky weather-beaten type (6) |
| COMBOS | Shed tears over unending ridicule going all the way back to jazz bands (6) |
| CRABBY | Shed tears over one character leaving Abba cross (6) |
| CANARY | Shed tears over answer and article reviewed by Tweeter (6) |
| PEEWIT | Shed tears over heart of city flyer (6) |
| CHERRY | Shed tears over that Lady in Red? (6) |
| CREEPY | Shed tears over English record. Weird! (6) |
| FRASER | --- Island, the largest sand island in the world, off the South East coast of Queensland (6) |
| RHODES | Release the hordes, then, for an island the sun. (6) |
| SKYROS | Greek island, the southernmost of the Sporades (6) |
| CRUSOE | Defoe's literary castaway who lived "eight and twenty years, all alone in an uninhabited island", the title character of what some consider the first English novel (6) |
| PUFFIN | Auk inhabiting locations including the Faroe Islands, the Isles of Scilly, Skokholm off the Pembrokeshire coast and its neighbouring Skomer (6) |
| BORNEO | Asian island, the highest point of which is Mount Kinabalu (6) |
| STATEN | ____ Island, the southernmost of New York's five boroughs (6) |
| SPIRAL | Tears over article anticipating pound's decrease in value (6) |
| QUAHOG | Fictional town in Rhode Island, the setting of the "Family Guy" cartoon |
| ITHACA | Smallest of the Greek Ionian Islands; the legendary home of Odysseus (6) |
| HERMIT | Small island the very thing for recluse |
