| ORKNEYISLANDS | Archipelago with settlements including Kirkwall, Mainland and Stromness, where purple-flowered Scott |
| BARNEYMILL | Where purple dinosaurs are ground into powder? |
| NIGHTGOWN | Close to large settlement, including good retirement cover (9) |
| CATAN | Board game with settlements and roads |
| STRAITS | Passages of water with Settlements on LMR 'Jubilee' 45629 (7) |
| ORKNEY | Archipelago with a diverse range of wildlife including Scottish primroses, great yellow bumblebees, corncrakes and seals, chief town Kirkwall (6) |
| ORCADIAN | Island inhabitant of Kirkwall or Stromness, eg |
| ISLES | British -; archipelago with indigenous languages including English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish and Manx (5) |
| OUTERHEBRIDES | Scottish archipelago with islands including Barra, Benbecula and Bernary (5,8) |
| CHEESES | Perceive backsliding in endless boardgame including the mainland and Cheshire (7) |
| SOLENT | Strait between the British mainland and the Isle of Wight, with "the" |
| SHETLAND | Archipelago with a native breed of pony whose economy relies on fishing, farming, oil, tourism and knitted textiles including Fair Isle (8) |
| SUBORNED | Bribed you and me returning mostly from island in Malay Archipelago with diamonds (8) |
| SANJUANISLANDS | Washington archipelago with a Spanish name (letters 3-4, 10-11 and 12-13) |
| LAUGHOUTOFCOURT | Dismiss with contempt twitter with settlement on the steps (5,3,2,5) |
| UNST | Third largest of the Shetland Islands after the Mainland and Yell (4) |
| HERVEY | Bay between the mainland and Fraser Island (6) |
| SULLOMVOE | Sheltered inlet between North Mainland and Northmavine, Shetland Islands, housing a petroleum terminal (6,3) |
| ESTONIA | Country comprising a mainland and 2,222 islands in the Baltic Sea (7) |
| MALAYSIA | Nation split between the Asian mainland and Borneo |
