| LANGUEDOC | Area from the Rhne valley to the eastern Pyrenees (9) |
| GRAVELLED | Gloomy valley to the left covered with stones |
| DOLGELLAU | Welsh community presenting log hewn in valley to the French |
| BYZANTINE | Relating to the Eastern or Greek Orthodox Church (9) |
| MITTELEUROPA | German term for, roughly, the area from the Rhine to the Vistula and the Baltic to the Balkans (12) |
| TEMPERATE | Valley to regard as being comfortably warm? |
| FORESTALL | Anticipate having large wooded area from start to finish (9) |
| CATCHMENT | Dolly perhaps intended, say, to find area from which river is fed (9) |
| LAUNCHPAD | The special area from which a spacecraft or missile are propelled (6,3) |
| HAIRSHIRT | RH has this air suitable only for the penitent (4,5) |
| ORCHESTRA | New RH briefly needs time in stalls in US (9) |
| ENCLOSURE | Area from which unwanted animals are excluded (Forestry) |
| UKRAINIAN | This country gets precipitation in surrounding area from Chernobyl |
| CROSSFIRE | Bullets passing through an area from two or more sources |
| PLAINS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| INDIANS | A term for the many Native American tribes once occupying an area from the Mississippi river to the Rocky mountains (6,7) |
| SOUTHCHINASEA | Part of the Pacific Ocean encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan (5,5,3) |
| FAMILYGUY | Seth McFarlane created this animated sitcom centred on a dysfunctional family who live in Quahog, Rh |
| ANDORRA | European microstate on the Iberian Peninsula in the eastern Pyrenees (7) |
| RHESUS | The determination of the "Rh" factor in human blood involves reaction with the blood of this monkey |
