| HONSHU | Name the chief island of Japan (6) |
| STREET | Name the Chief Justice of NSW 1974-88, Sir Laurence ... (6) |
| KEYGRIP | Name the chief stagehand on a movie set, or in a TV studio (3,4) |
| TAHITI | Chief island of the Society Islands in French Polynesia (6) |
| TARAWA | Chief island of Kiribati, site of a World War II battle in November 1943 (6) |
| TOHOKU | Northernmost region of Honshu, the largest island of Japan (6) |
| KYUSHU | Southernmost and third largest of the four main islands of Japan. (6) |
| NASSAU | Dawn assault captures chief island port (6) |
| HOKKAIDO | The northernmost of the four main islands of Japan. It is bordered by the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the Sea of Okhotsk to the north, and the Pacific Ocean. (8) |
| MAHE | Chief island of the Seychelles, location of its capital Victoria (4) |
| RAROTONGA | Chief island of the Cook Islands, on which the national capital (Avarua) is located (9) |
| TORTOLA | Chief island of the British Virgin Islands, on which the capital, Road Town, is located (7) |
| LUZON | Chief island of the Philippines |
| OAHU | Chief island of Hawaii |
| SHIKOKU | The smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is separated from Honshu by the Inland Sea (north) and the Kii Strait (east) and from Kyushu by the Bungo Strait (west). (7) |
| OKINAWA | Coral island of Japan, the largest of the Ryukyu Islands |
| INLANDSEA | Body of water separating three of the four main islands of Japan (6,3) |
| AINU | What is a member of the indigenous race of the northern-most islands of Japan? (4) |
| TSUSHIMA | Largest island of Japan's Nagasaki Prefecture, in the Korea Strait between Japan and South Korea (8) |
| IRABU | One of the Miyako Islands of Japan |
