| RHYL | Resort town in Den bighshire, North Wales, at the entrance to the Vale of Clwyd (4) |
| OXON | Abbreviated name for the county containing the Vale of the White Horse and parts of the Chilterns with the snake's-head fritillary as its flower (4) |
| RTYA | Welsh town at the mouth of the river Clwyd (4) |
| DENBIGH | Market town in the Vale of Clwyd, N Wales housing a ruined castle (7) |
| DEPP | Hollywood actor Johnny - - - watched England beat Wales at Twickenham in 2011 - his first rugby match (4) |
| BLOW | Fan of Wales at first supports Bale with love (4) |
| OSSA | Peak south of the Vale of Tempe |
| ABERDARE | Industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dar and Cynon |
| MELTONMOWBRAY | Leicestershire town, close to the Vale of Belvoir, famous for its pork pies (6,7) |
| BARRY | Seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan on the north coast of the Bristol Channel (5) |
| BOWRING | Kevin - - - , former London Welsh captain who coached Wales at the start of the professional era (7) |
| BUCKLAND | Sir Robert __, secretary of state for Wales (at the time of writing) (8) |
| GUNWALE | Wale at the top of the side of boat (7) |
| SNOWDON | The highest mountain in Wales at 1085 metres, featuring a railway to summit (7) |
| CRABBE | A rector of Muston in the Vale of Belvoir as well as a surgeon, poet and coleopterist whose works such as The Village and The Borough were esteemed by Tennyson (6) |
| MUNRO | Shade ..... , rugby union lock whose 1994 Scotland Test debut was against Wales at Cardiff in the Five Nations (5) |
| PENARTH | Seaside resort in the Vale of Glamorgan south of Cardiff (7) |
| RYEDALE | Historic district of North Yorkshire in the Vale of Pickering (7) |
| PEWSEY | The Vale of ____ is part of the North Wessex Downs AONB |
| TEMPE | The Vale of ____ is a gorge between the mountains of Olympus and Ossa, once culturally famed for its rugged beauty |
