| FLOW | The wolf returns near to Scapa ... |
| JELLICOE | 'Jubilee'No. 45667, and name given to specials carrying coal to Scapa Flow in W1 (8) |
| DENOVO | Writer returns near end of year to love anew (2,4) |
| KOREAN | Asian is alright, returns near accident |
| OAK | The battleship Royal ... was torpedoed at Scapa Flow in October, 1939, and sank with the loss of 80 |
| SPLENDOUR | Spectacle of sub entering opening of Scapa Flow |
| OAKNEYISLANDS | Scapa Flow is a body of water in this archipelago (6,7) |
| ROYALOAK | British ship torpedoed in Scapa Flow in 1939 killing over 800 men (5,3) |
| UBOATS | One of them sank HMS Royal Oak in Scapa Flow (1-5) |
| HMSROYALOAK | It was sunk by U-boat in Scapa Flow in 1939 (3,5,3) |
| CHEDDAR | Situated near to the site of the UK's largest gorge and famous for cheese, a village in the Mendip Hills through which the Sustrans Strawberry Line passes (7) |
| ENDURING | "The firm, the ____, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue" (Confucius) |
| CREEP | To crawl with the body near to or touching the ground (5) |
| CANNES | Film-festival city near to the Lerins Islands and Ile Sainte-Marguerite, where the so-called man in the iron mask spent 11 years isolated in a fortress prison (6) |
| WELWYN | Village in Hertfordshire near to a garden city developed after the First World War that was the seco |
| COOKSTOWN | A former centre of the linen industry in County Tyrone, near to the Beaghmore stone circles and cairns (9) |
| APPOSE | To put side by side / to put opposite or near to |
| ROYALOSMUNA | The fern Osmunda regalis, which often grows near to water, is frequently referred to as this (5,6) |
| TOECAP | Step back near to the front of the shoe (3-3) |
| LOSER | Head off to get near to the mark, but is still beaten (5) |
