| GALLOWAY | Area of south-west Scotland on the Solway Firth (8) |
| STRANRAER | A ferry port and town in South West Scotland, on the shores of Loch Ryan (9) |
| ULLAPOOL | Town of north-west Scotland on the eastern shore of Loch Broom (8) |
| HAAF | - netting; method of salmon fishing handed down by the Vikings, practised on the Solway Firth, Lune and Ribble (4) |
| OBAN | A small port and resort in West Scotland, on the Firth of Lorn (4) |
| AYRSHIRE | Former county of south-west Scotland (8) |
| DUMFRIES | ____ and Galloway, a region of south-west Scotland (8) |
| IRISHSEA | Solway Firth is part of this body of water (5,3) |
| MUDFLATS | Estuarial area, such as Solway Firth, good for wildfowling (8) |
| CALABRIA | Mountainous area of south-west Italy (8) |
| DORDOGNE | Area of south-west France (8) |
| HADRIANSWALL | A Roman fortification extending across England from the Solway Firth to the mouth of the River Tyne (8,4) |
| MARYPORT | Town where River Ellen enters Solway Firth (*to my parr) (8) |
| EDEN | What is the name of the Cumbrian river that flows into the Solway Firth? (4) |
| GREENOCK | Port in south west Scotland (8) |
| ANNAN | Former UN head or head of the Solway Firth (5) |
| EASTAYRSHIRE | Council area of south west Scotland in which Kilmarnock is located (4,8) |
| NITH | Scotland's seventh-longest river which flows into the Solway Firth at Airds Point (4) |
| CARLYLE | Scottish historian heard somewhere near the Solway Firth |
| THECLOSE | Second hole at Silloth on Solway is a dead end (3,5) |
