| DOWNTOOLS | Onto the Wolds, about to strike out? (4,5) |
| DELETE | Hinder girl about to strike out (6) |
| THISTLEDOWN | Feathery seeds beginning to twirl unexpectedly in the wolds |
| HOWLINGWIND | Whining about the wold's gale noise (7,4) |
| ICOMB | My coach left Bournemouth first thing in the morning, and after two hours I had travelled to my destination: a place near Stow-on-the-Wold (5) |
| UPPERSLAUGHTER | Cotswold village south-west of Stow-on-the-Wold (5,9) |
| STOW | Pack neatly - for a market town on the wold (4) |
| TRAIL | Type of footpath through the countryside with long-distance examples including the Cotswold Way, Pennine Way, South West Coast Path and the Yorkshire Wolds Way (5) |
| HESSLE | She's confused by the French at the eastern end of the Yorkshire Wolds Way (6) |
| HABIT | The custom of a sailor to strike out? (5) |
| HITON | China's extremists coming out, about to strike (3,2) |
| RELIGHT | The girl about to strike again (7) |
| THERAPY | Those people about to strike will get the treatment (7) |
| EYEOFTHETIGER | 1982 chart-topper about a ballplayer who's tough to strike out? |
| GOITALONE | To strike out on his own, eccentric theologian has to waste hours (2,2,5) |
| TENNYSON | Poet born in the Lincolnshire Wolds who wrote Idylls of the King (8) |
| FILEY | Seaside town in North Yorkshire that is the end point of the Yorkshire Wolds Way (5) |
| TESTY | Inclined to strike out |
| ATBAT | Chance to strike out on one's own |
| HOLDIT | Wait for veteran to strike out (4,2) |
