| ONWARDS | My son, a doctor who lives near the centre of Westward Ho, worked hard to get ahead (7) |
| BREA | My brother, who lives near the centre of Cerne Abbas, is coming to visit my place near Redruth (4) |
| HOUR | Hard to get ahead of our time |
| STONY | It's hard to get ahead in a filthy place (5) |
| NATE | Hunky doctor who lives in Summer Bay (4,6) |
| RESIDENT | Junior doctor who lives in their hospital (8) |
| EARTH | Where we live, near the centre? (5) |
| OUTFLOW | We had a large leak in the loft in our place on the outskirts of Westward Ho -- we've had three plumbers come to try to fix it (7) |
| OBSCENE | My son, a civil engineer who lives on the outskirts of Barnstaple, can be terribly rude (7) |
| BRIDGES | Awarded an Order of Merit for The Testament of Beauty and services to literature, a doctor who held the position of poet laureate from 1913 until his death in 1930 (7) |
| NILOTES | Those who live near the banks of Africa's longest river (7) |
| SLOGGED | Worked hard to get the south deforested (7) |
| SWEATED | Worked hard to make a stewed concoction (7) |
| HEALTHY | Sort of respect one has for a doctor who cured you? (7) |
| SSSSSSS | 1973 horror flick about a doctor who turns his assistant into a cobra |
| SURGEON | A doctor who does operations (7) |
| TOWNIES | Non-students who live near a college campus, slangily |
| EQUATOR | People who live near i have little latitude (7) |
| CANFORDCLIFFS | At the beginning of February, my son, a head chef who has a large place in Cardiff, moved to an affluent suburb of Poole (7,6) |
| COSSACKS | Slavic-Turkic people who live near the Black Sea and formed the cavalry of Russian tsars (8) |
