| COLERAINE | Large town in Northern Ireland whose name means "nook of the ferns" |
| DROGHEDA | Port town in County Louth in Ireland whose name means 'bridge at the ford' (8) |
| KING | Dryopteris cristata, monarch of the ferns (4) |
| TYRONE | County in Northern Ireland whose county town is Omagh (6) |
| ARMAGH | County in Northern Ireland whose towns include Lurgan and Portadown (6) |
| ELGIN | Large town in northern Scotland (pop about 25,000), a former royal burgh (5) |
| ANDREWS | Prime minister of Northern Ireland whose brother, Thomas, was the principal designer of RMS Titanic (7) |
| DOWN | County of Northern Ireland whose towns include Dundonald and Newtownards |
| LARNE | Football club from Northern Ireland whose home ground is Inver Park (5) |
| ENNISKILLEN | Town in Northern Ireland, on an island in the River Erne (11) |
| STRABANE | Small town in Northern Ireland (pop 13,000), on the border with the Irish Republic (8) |
| OMAGH | County town in Northern Ireland (pop about 20,000), founded in 1610 (5) |
| BELLEEK | Kind of thin fragile porcelain named after a town in Northern Ireland (7) |
| BALLYMENA | Town in Northern Ireland north of Lough Neagh (9) |
| RENFREW | Fewer turn up in the Navy, in short, at large town in the west (7) |
| READING | Large town in the south of England, founded in the 8th century (7) |
| ILFORD | Large town in Greater London that is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Redbridge |
| WOODSIA | I saw Scottish pigeon in the ferns (7) |
| ANTRIM | Market town in Northern Ireland on Lough Neagh (6) |
| MAYO | County of the Republic of Ireland whose county town is Castlebar (4) |
