| ONSEA | Situated like Southend, for example (2,3) |
| AIRPORT | Associated with another mode of travel, but found on the rail network at Manchester and Southend, for example (7) |
| INTHESAMEBOAT | Similarly situated, like the Owl and the Pussy-Cat? |
| HIDES | Lies low at Southend for days (5) |
| HIRED | Taken on for a crazy ride to Southend (5) |
| ESSEX | Southend-on- Sea's county |
| EDITH | Maybe she tied the knot at Southend? (5) |
| ENDUP | Finish a - in Southend, upstream (3,2) |
| ANTON | Ferdinand, West Ham United, Sunderland and Southend United defender (5) |
| RAWLE | Mark ..... , Oxford forward signed from Southend in 2003 (5) |
| NOTED | Seen in Southend every so often |
| ROOTS | Hall, home ground of Southend United (5) |
| CRASH | Cars in a smash at Southend |
| KEITH | Boy flying a kite at Southend |
| THERE | In that place before getting to central Southend (5) |
| ENDED | In Southend, education is done (5) |
| HEATH | Hot weather at Southend, just as at Hampstead |
| HEDGE | At Southend, a border barrier? (5) |
| HABIT | The custom of going to Southend a little (5) |
| HILLS | Being very old, they make complaints at Southend (5) |
