| GIRT | - by sea, our land as described in the national anthem (4) |
| IDEALCOMMONWEALTH | Imaginary perfect land as described in New Atlantis, Erewhon or Utopia |
| SOPS | Drinkers Burton, O'Toole, R. Harris & O. Reed, as described in the N/F book Hellraisers. |
| ALAN | He's mentioned in the national anthem (4) |
| TRIM | Car's upholstery and part of its wheel as described in Yorkshire (4) |
| LAWN | Word for a glade between woods originally, later a level green or sward of mown grass or of clipped camomile, as described in Mary Wesley's second novel (4) |
| ASIA | Land, as the part of Iago (4) |
| BRAVENEWWORLD | Desirable or perfect society in the future as described in 'The Tempest' (5,3,5) |
| HIGHWIND | A hurricane, as described in the title of the best-known novel by Richard Hughes |
| GRAB | Seize artist entering our land |
| LOCUSTS | The Biblical eighth Plague of Egypt, as described in the Old Testament |
| LIARS | Cretans, as described in the Epimenides paradox |
| GHOST | Father of Shakespeare's Hamlet, as described in the play's dramatis personae (5) |
| REDSEA | Organised a Seder as described in the Bible |
| DYSTOPIA | Undesirable type of society as described in The Sleeper Awakes, Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four (8) |
| THROUGH | Word after "Whose broad stripes and bright stars" in the national anthem |
| LAYONESHANDSON | Obtain wild honey as described in country by son (3,4,5,2) |
| JOSECANYOUSEE | He's in the National Anthem |
| OER | Repeated contraction in the national anthem |
| LEVIATHAN | Sea monster as described in Job 41 (9) |
