| JURASSIC | - Coast; region including Chesil Beach, Durdle Door, Lulworth Cove and Old Harry Rocks (8) |
| STUDLAND | Dorset naturist beach near Old Harry Rocks (8) |
| DORSET | Containing Durdle Door, Corfe Castle, Lulworth Cove and Sherborne Abbey, birth county of Thomas Hardy which inspired his fictional land Wessex (6) |
| WEYMOUTH | Seaside town on the southern tip of the Jurassic Coast near Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland (8) |
| PORTLAND | Isle of -; forming part of the Jurassic Coast, a peninsula joined to Chesil Beach by a causeway (8) |
| BRIDPORT | Market town in Dorset near the western end of Chesil Beach (8) |
| HOKITIKA | Town and river in the West Coast region of the South Island (8) |
| WESTLAND | One of three district councils in the West Coast region (8) |
| TARANAKI | West coast region of the North Island (8) |
| NICKNAME | "Old Harry", for instance? (8) |
| LIVERIED | Old Harry admitting anger about wearing uniform (8) |
| COVE | Lulworth -; shingle beach along the Jurassic Coast near Durdle Door (4) |
| COVERING | Reporting on feature of Lulworth band |
| PURBECK | Isle of ; peninsula on the Jurassic Coast with landmarks including Durdle Door and Corfe Castle, said to have inspired many books by Enid Blyton (7) |
| MCEWAN | English author of novels including The Comfort of Strangers and On Chesil Beach, and of several screenplays including The Ploughman's Lunch (6) |
| IANMCEWAN | British author of novels including Atonement and On Chesil Beach (3,6) |
| KNIGHT | Artist and Royal Academician Dame Laura, noted for scenes of circus life, ballet, women at war and for Newlyn School landscapes such as Lamorna Cove and On the Beach (6) |
| MCEVAN | Novelist who wrote Atonement, On Chesil Beach and Nutshell (6) |
| FLEET | The ___, 8-mile long lagoon by Chesil Beach, or ___ Pond, Hants (5) |
| ISLEOFPORTLAND | Limestone peninsula in Dorset, connected to the mainland by Chesil Beach (4,2,8) |
