| FRASER | --- Island, the largest sand island in the world, off the South East coast of Queensland (6) |
| BORNEO | Island in south-east Asia (287,000 sq miles; pop 22 million), the third largest island in the world (6) |
| EASTER | - Island; World Heritage Site in the South Pacific noted for its monolithic stone moai; one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world (6) |
| BAFFIN | ___ Island, the largest island in Canada (6) |
| TAIWAN | Island located off the south-eastern coast of China (6) |
| TAHITI | Pacific island, the largest in French Polynesia (6) |
| STOLEN | Hot water off the south coast, after temperature rises by 4 degrees? (6) |
| PUFFIN | Auk inhabiting locations including the Faroe Islands, the Isles of Scilly, Skokholm off the Pembrokeshire coast and its neighbouring Skomer (6) |
| HURON | Manitoulin Island, the largest freshwater lake island in the world, is in which lake shared by Canada and the US? (5) |
| QESHM | Largest island in the Persian Gulf, in the Strait of Hormuz off the south coast of Iran (5) |
| CRUSOE | Defoe's literary castaway who lived "eight and twenty years, all alone in an uninhabited island", the title character of what some consider the first English novel (6) |
| QUAHOG | Fictional town in Rhode Island, the setting of the "Family Guy" cartoon |
| BOTANYBAY | An inlet of the Tasman Sea on the South East Coast of Australia (6,3) |
| HONOLULU | The state capital of Hawaii, on the South East coast of Oahu Island (8) |
| ITHACA | Smallest of the Greek Ionian Islands; the legendary home of Odysseus (6) |
| SKYROS | Greek island, the southernmost of the Sporades (6) |
| SANDOWN | Seaside resort on the south east coast of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| CALADOR | Popular resort on the south-east coast of Mallorca in the Santanyi municipality, known for its yacht marina (4,3) |
| RHODES | Release the hordes, then, for an island the sun. (6) |
| STATEN | ____ Island, the southernmost of New York's five boroughs (6) |
