| EBBW | & 23A Town in Blaenau Gwent, Wales, formerly associated with the steel and coal industries (4,4) |
| EBBWVALE | Town in Blaenau Gwent, Wales formerly associated with the steel and coal industries (4,4) |
| VALE | And 20D. Town in Blaenau Gwent, Wales, formerly associated with the steel and coal industries (4,4) |
| KERKRADE | City in the Netherlands on the German border formerly associated with the coal-mining industry (8) |
| ABERDARE | Town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, southwest of Merthyr Tydfil formerly associated with the coal industry (8) |
| REDDITCH | New Town in Worcestershire formerly associated with the Enfield Cycle Co Ltd (8) |
| AMARILLO | US city in NW Texas formerly associated with the helium industry (8) |
| LLANELLI | Town of south Wales, formerly known for coalmining and tin production (8) |
| CONCEDER | He gives up clubs formerly associated with the German (8) |
| TRINIDAD | Island forming a country with Tobago; birthplace of the steel drum and the novelist V. S. Naipaul (8) |
| ADHESION | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ traction - the friction between the drive wheels and the steel rail (8) |
| LLANRWSR | Station on the Blaenau Ffestiniog branch (8) |
| GOVAN | Area of Glasgow formerly associated with the weaving, coal and shipbuilding industries |
| LLANRWST | Blaenau Ffestiniog branch station (8) |
| VAUXHALL | Steel and granite arch bridge over the Thames which links Westminster and Lambeth (8) |
| RUSTBELT | Area suffering industrial decline, especially the steel-producing region of America's Midwest and NE states (4,4) |
| LOSEONES | Become incensed and fail to process the steel properly? (4,4,6) |
| CORBY | New town in Northamptonshire formerly associated with the steel industry (5) |
| STALYBRIDGE | Town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester formerly associated with the textil |
| REDRUTH | Town in Cornwall northeast of Camborne formerly associated with the copper-mining industry (7) |
