| GALVESTON | On TV, gales battered a port in Texas |
| EAGLE | Eastern gale battered bird (5) |
| HOUSTON | Port in Texas, site of the Manned Spacecraft Center (7) |
| SNOWDONIA | Wind, and so on, battered a national park (9) |
| HORTENSIA | So the rain battered a shrub |
| TRONDHEIM | A port in central Norway, a former Viking capital (9) |
| CLEVELAND | A port in North East Ohio, USA, on Lake Erie (9) |
| BALTIMORE | A port in North Maryland, USA, on Chesapeake Bay (9) |
| PENSACOLA | More than one pound a drink for a port in Florida |
| RIOGRANDE | Drunk ordering a port in a foreign land (3,6) |
| CARTAGENA | A port in north-west Colombia, centre for the Inquisition (9) |
| ROTTERDAM | Roguish type getting mother a port in Holland (9) |
| NEWCASTLE | Settle snugly outside toilet with a port in Australia (9) |
| KIRKCALDY | A port in E Scotland (9) |
| MARSEILLE | Spoils the Spanish story about a port in France (9) |
| ANCHORAGE | Most populous city of Alaska, a port in the south at the head of Cook Inlet (9) |
| TARAGONAA | Simple to obtain a port, in Spain |
| LONSDALE | What is a street in Melbourne's CBD, a port in Victoria, a square in London, a quay in Vancouver and a "belt" is a British boxing prize? (8) |
| TEMPURA | Calorie-free crumpet, battered - a deep-fried speciality |
| ESCALATION | Rapid rise battered a coastline |
