| STORNOWAY | Largest town of the Western Isles (9) |
| THORSHAVN | The capital and largest town of the Faeroe Islands |
| RANGIORA | Largest town of the Waimakariri District, in Canterbury (8) |
| HEBRIDEAN | Male bishop on Rhode Island, churchman from the Western Isles |
| OTHERWISE | Soldiers protecting the Western Isles: east under different conditions |
| LEWIS | Northern part of the largest island of the Western Isles (5) |
| GAELIC | Language spoken in many of the Western Isles of Scotland (6) |
| ANCHORAGE | Port and largest town of Alaska (9) |
| ROADTUNNELS | What have proposals been put forward about for linking parts of the Western Isles and linking Mull to the mainland? (4,7) |
| TOBERMORY | Chief town of the Isle of Mull (9) |
| BEAUMARIS | Former county town of the island of Anglesey (9) |
| OUTER | The Western Isles of Scotland, the ... Hebrides |
| DODGECITY | County seat of Ford County, Kansas, on the Arkansas River, famous for its history as a wild frontier town of the Old West (5,4) |
| TIMISOARA | Industrial city in Romania, the chief town of the Banat region (9) |
| DOLGELLAU | County town of the historic county of Merionethshire, making ludo legal! (9) |
| DESMOINES | The home town of the American author Bill Bryson (3,6) |
| BETHLEHEM | Town of the Biblical Nativity (9) |
| OUTERHEBRIDES | Part of Scotland also known as the Western Isles |
| TRIP | Journey to the Western Isles, perhaps, is no end of nonsense |
| HEBRIDES | She grooms partners for the Western Isles (8) |
