| SLIEVE | And 9ac Highest mountain in Northern Ireland (6,6) |
| DONARD | Highest mountain in Northern Ireland (6,6) |
| PORTHARCOURT | and 9ac, City in S Nigeria on the Bonny River in the Niger Delta (4,8) |
| THEHUDSUCKER | and 9ac, 1994 Coen Brothers comedy-drama film starring Tim Robbins and Jennifer Jason Leigh |
| YANKEEDOODLE | and 9ac, 1942 biopic starring James Cagney as George M Cohan |
| GOODBYETOALL | and 9ac, Graves suggesting appropriate farewell to 2016, to go by a death toll that's terrible |
| MERU | A mountain in Northern Tanzania |
| OSSA | A mountain in northern Greece (6,490 feet) (4) |
| KINABALU | Huge mountain in northern Borneo, part of a Unesco world heritage site |
| PICOSDEEUROPA | National Park in the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain |
| CAIRNGORMS | Mountains in northern Scotland (10) |
| PORT | and 9ac, City in S Nigeria on the Bonny River in the Niger Delta (4,8) |
| HARCOURT | and 9ac, City in S Nigeria on the Bonny River in the Niger Delta (4,8) |
| STRIKES | And 9Ac Tigerish blows to continuity in industrial output (4-3,7) |
| BENAZIR | and 9ac, Prime minister of Pakistan from 1988-90 and 1993-96 |
| HEARING | and 9ac, Somewhat defective in sound sense (4,2,7) |
| HARDOF | and 9ac, Somewhat defective in sound sense (4,2,7) |
| BENAZIRBHUTTO | and 9ac, Prime minister of Pakistan from 1988-90 and 1993-96 |
| NEVERADULL | and 9ac, 1950 romcom starring Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray |
| REY | and 9ac, Cardiff Blues and Samoa rugby union centre |
