| PRINCE | "Hamlet, ... of Denmark" (Shakespeare) (6) |
| THOMPSON | Author of Lark Rise to Candleford, a semi-autobiographical trilogy of novels based on rural life in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Juniper Hill (8) |
| YORICK | He amused Hamlet of yore (not half!) beside haystack? (6) |
| DOCMARTIN | Show set in the Cornish hamlet of Portwenn. (3,6) |
| GOOSTREY | An ancient farming village off Junction 18 of the M6, near Jodrell Bank Observatory; the parish contains the hamlet of Blackden (8) |
| AYTHERESTHERUBE | Famous line from Hamlet of Mayberry? |
| MYLAI | Notorious hamlet of Vietnam |
| CAPEDORSET | The Nunavut hamlet of Kinngait was known by this name prior to 2020: 2 wds. |
| FATHOMLESS | Disguised hamlet of special German police force is impenetrable (10) |
| KOPS | Bernard **** , late writer noted for his play 'The Hamlet of Stepney Green' (4) |
| VILLAGES | From "country houses, farmsteads", word for large hamlets of rural abodes; or, the communities of said thorps (8) |
| HAMLET | Which one of Shakespeare's plays is about a prince of Denmark? (6) |
| CANUTE | King of England from 1016, of Denmark from 1018, and of Norway from 1028 (6) |
| DRUDGE | Servile worker from the capital of Denmark offensive about first of girls (6) |
| IHGRID | -- of Sweden, Queen of Denmark from 1947 to 1972 (6) |
| ROTTEN | Condition of Denmark in Hamlet's day. |
| DANISH | Language of Denmark (6) |
| INGRID | Mother of Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark |
| NORDIC | Of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland (6) |
| UTMOST | Best stout drunk across heart of Denmark (6) |