| REDDITCH | Worcs. town location of Arrow Valley Lake (*did retch!) (8) |
| ALEHOUSE | Local river south of a lake, did you say? (8) |
| STITCHER | Sewer that could make you sit and retch! |
| MATAMATA | Town, location of the Hobbiton movie set (8) |
| SHEARSBY | Four-lake Leics. fishery, ___ Valley Lakes (8) |
| PATERSON | Dane ........ , South Africa Test bowler who took 8-52 for Notts against Worcs at Trent Bridge in the 2022 County Championship (8) |
| MALVERNS | Worcs./Herts. hill range that inspired Elgar (8) |
| GOODMOOR | Collett engine 6838 named after 'Grange' in Worcs. (8) |
| MALDEMER | Sailor's problem made me retch at first, crossing lake (3,2,3) |
| NAUSEOUS | A druggie, ultimately lacking in sense, about to retch? (8) |
| KERVEZEE | Alexei ..., cricketer who hit 155 for Worcs in their LV County Championship Division Two match against Derbyshire in July, 2010 (8) |
| STREIGNE | Boiled Italian greens could make you retch as before |
| GROSSOUT | Make retch, maybe |
| WISBECH | Fenland town location of Buttonhole Lake Fishery (7) |
| GATESHEAD | Tyneside town, location of Angel of the North fishery (9) |
| MARKETRASEN | Lincolnshire town, location of a National Hunt racecourse (6,5) |
| CASABLANCA | African town, location of the January 1943 conference involving Roosevelt and Churchill (10) |
| ALFORD | Lincs. town location of Oham Lakes (*for lad) (6) |
| PONTEFRACT | West Yorkshire town, location of the castle in which Richard II was murdered (10) |
| SPILSBY | Lincs market town location of Woodlands Fishery (7) |