| GRANADA | A former ITV franchise - and a province in Spain (7) |
| EXTREMADURA | What name is shared by a region in western Spain and a province in central Portugal? (11) |
| TIM | The Chief, a former ITV crime series starring ... Pigott-Smith and Martin Shaw, used Norwich, Yarmouth and Gorleston as filming locations (3) |
| RAO | Eponym of an Italian-restaurant franchise and a pasta-sauce brand |
| RESIDENTEVIL | Horror video game/film franchise, and a literal feature of the answers to the starred clues |
| VALENCIA | Port and province in Spain (8) |
| COSTABLANCA | Mediterranean coastal region of the Alicante province in Spain (5,6) |
| PRIMATE | An archbishop in charge of a province in the Church of England (7) |
| MUNSTER | Name a province in the southwestern Republic of Ireland (7) |
| EPARCHY | A province in ancient Greece |
| VILAYET | Historical word for a province in the Ottoman Empire (7) |
| XFACTOR | Former ITV musical talent show, The _ _ (1,6) |
| EDMONTON | A suburb in London but a province in Canada? (8) |
| BEY | Title of a governor of a province in the ottoman empire |
| MUNSTERLANDER | Large gundog from a province in Ireland - a down-to-earth type (13) |
| ERIE | Lake bordered by four states and a province |
| NOMARCH | Governor of a province or department in ancient Egypt or modern Greece (7) |
| SILESIA | Central European region largely situated in Poland, once a province of Prussia (7) |
| RHAETIA | A province of the Roman Empire in central Europe, including the Tyrol, etc (7) |
| ALBERTA | Bishop goes in to warn a province (7) |