| ORKNEYS | Islands, but not Skye (nor equivalent) (7) |
| TOLLS | Taxes coral islands, but not at first |
| INNER | Private Hebridean islands, but not those in this puzzle? (5) |
| NORTHERNIRELAND | Turns up in an island but not surrounded by water (8,7) |
| COPIOUS | Plentiful work in the Channel Islands, but nothing with us (7) |
| OTTOMAN | Bismarck's first on island, but he's Turkish (7) |
| BONBONS | Mallorcan deep-fried doughnuts consumed at several fiestas on the island but especially during October's Festa de les Verges (7) |
| NIUE | Known as the "Rock of Polynesia", one of the world's largest coral islands but one of its smallest nations (4) |
| CANARY | A renowned singer in its islands but a harbinger of death in mine (6) |
| SECRETED | Hidden Greek island, but Roman captured it (8) |
| SARDINIA | Large island, but it has road in one area only |
| BORNE | Transported to island but stopped short (5) |
| MINOR | Carla gutted to leave Mediterranean island, but no big deal (5) |
| ALMOND | All calm on desert island but found a nut inside (6) |
| OMANIS | Middle-Easterners from an island, but only part (6) |
| CONCRETE | Trick the island but be firm about it! |
| SLANDER | Defame someone from Skye, not Italy (7) |
| CHARLIE | Bonnie Prince -; a nickname of the Young Pretender immortalised in the Skye Boat Song who led the Jacobite uprising but was defeated at the Battle of Culloden (7) |
| PAISLEY | Settle around Skye, perhaps to make cloth (7) |
| MACLEOD | "Come, lad," ordered Skye clan member (7) |
