| KLOSTERS | Swiss winter sports resort close to the border with Austria (8) |
| GSTAAD | Swiss winter sports resort for the jet set (6) |
| MORITZ | Swiss winter sports resort, St ... |
| ADIGE | Second-longest river of Italy, rising near the border with Austria and Switzerland and flowing south-east to the Adriatic (5) |
| BLED | Lakeside tourist town in Slovenia, near the border with Austria (4) |
| ZUGSPITZE | Germany' highest peak, on the border with Austria (9) |
| AMRITSAR | City in north-west India (pop about 1.6 million), close to the border with Pakistan (8) |
| AVIEMORE | A winter sports resort in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland (8) |
| APRESSKI | Nightlife at a winter sports resort (5-3) |
| BOUNDARY | Certain to take Ray out to the border (8) |
| FRONTIER | From the scene of hostilities I returned to the border (8) |
| DISS | Norfolk town in the valley of the River Waveney close to the border with Suffolk |
| CHESTER | City in Cheshire on the River Dee, close to the border with Wales |
| TRIESTE | Largest port on the Adriatic Sea by cargo turnover, in NE Italy close to the border with Slovenia (7) |
| ARDABIL | City in northwestern Iran, close to the border with Azerbaijan (7) |
| TWEED | One runner came back with time for another close to the Border (5) |
| SANREMO | Italian port and resort close to French border (3,4) |
| SPEY | Highland settlement's open snow resort close to capacity after endowment (8-2-4) |
| GRANTOWNON | Highland settlement's open snow resort close to capacity after endowment (8-2-4) |
| LEDGE | A student gets close to the border - on a shelf (5) |
