| BELT | Region in Belgium around Li'ge and Ghent (4) |
| EURO | Ring road in Belgium, around its capital (4) |
| LOKEREN | Industrial town in Belgium between Antwerp and Ghent (7) |
| CORD | Cable from Coleridge dismissing Li'ge (4) |
| BLACKICE | Driving hazard in Belgium around the French border at Chimay first of all kept in check (5,3) |
| ARDENNES | The _, a wooded region in Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and France (8) |
| FLANDERS | Region in Belgium |
| MASTER | Opens 14 across in Li'ge? (6) |
| LAMB | Adoration of the Mystic -; Ghent Altarpiece attributed to brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck (4) |
| STAM | Commonly abbreviated name for the Ghent City Museum (4) |
| EYCK | Jan van -; artist who painted The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, or the Ghent Altarpiece (4) |
| ICON | One of many on the "Ghent Altarpiece" |
| BELG | Ghent gent: Abbr. |
| RAISEDBEACHES | Starting off, said nice things about Belgium around every school in former seaside areas (6,7) |
| NOSEBLEEDS | Raises relative from Belgium around a city in England with symptoms of epistaxis (10) |
| DALES | Yorkshire -; National Park in the north of England in which the Three Peaks of Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside are situated (5) |
| BROWNING | Robert ?, poet whose works include How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix and The Ring and the Book |
| WHERNSIDE | Highest mountain in Yorkshire's West Riding, forming the Three Peaks with Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent (9) |
| SEEINTO | Examine unusual stone found around the centre of Ghent by yours truly (3,4) |
| LENGTHENS | In municipality near Mons, Ghent unexpectedly extends (9) |
