| CASTAWAY | Person abandoned on a desert island |
| NEANDERTHAL | Old person abandoned near the land |
| MAROONED | Abandoned on a desolate island |
| SINGERS | Promiscuous person's abandoned by wife, or 1, 9, 12, 13, 14, 16, 20, 24, 25, 26 Across and 1, 2, 5 and 22 Down (7) |
| ARDEN | Narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a seaman wrecked on a desert island (5,5) |
| ENOCH | Narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about a seaman wrecked on a desert island (5,5) |
| WAVE | Crasher on a desert island |
| AWAY | Tom Hanks found himself Cast ---- on a desert island (4) |
| PALM | Lone tree on a desert island, say |
| ISOLATION | Secluded plight on a desert island, say |
| HUT | Shelter built on a desert island |
| PALMTREE | *Source of shade on a desert island, say |
| DISC | Could be slipped on a Desert Island programme? (4) |
| MAROON | Strand on a desert island? (6) |
| MAROONS | Leaves on a desert island (7) |
| ISOLATE | I had to catch the sun, put on a desert island? (7) |
| SOS | Letters spelled out with rocks on a desert island, in cartoons |
| OASIS | Ring a relative from a desert island (5) |
| GUJARATI | Indian vessel turning west of a desert island |
| PALMED | Made it disappear by magic - like a desert island (6) |
