| DAMNATION | Bar the country from hell (9) |
| CANTILENA | In Spanish bar the French demonstrate vocal style (9) |
| WAISTCOAT | A gent's torso-warming sleeveless button-down-bar-the-last-one dapper garment, tailored on Savile Row or by Beatrix Potter's anthropomorphic mice in Gloucester, say (9) |
| EAVESDROP | What happens in autumn - bar the start - to earwig |
| DISMEMBER | The politician from hell cut to pieces |
| FRIGHTFUL | Legitimate support given to female from hell |
| CHARYBDIS | Monster from hell approached by cautious bishop |
| DAMNEDDAM | Hydroelectric project from hell? |
| CAPET | Hugh - - -, King of France, founder of the dynasty which ruled the country from 987-1328 (5) |
| ORDNANCE | - Survey; Great Britain's official national mapping agency who erected the triangulation pillars (trigpoints) around the country from 1936 (8) |
| HUGH | King of France, founder of the dynasty that ruled the country from 987-1328 (4,5) |
| ABORIGINAL | A bachelor, eccentric, having lived in the country from the start |
| IMRENAGY | Hungarian communist prime minister who withdrew the country from the Warsaw Pact in 1956 (4,4) |
| REST | "He's got a fog in his chest so he needs a lot of _ _ _ _ in the country", from Blur's "Country House" (4) |
| EXPORTS | They leave the country from old seaside towns (7) |
| NARA | City in central Japan that was capital of the country from 710784 (4) |
| AUCKLAND | Seaport on North Island, New Zealand that was capital of the country from 1840-65 (8) |
| GRIEF | In retrospect, political party protects most of the country from deep sorrow (5) |
| KYOTO | City in central Japan; capital of the country from 794 to 1868 (5) |
| WATERINGHOLE | Bar the using of the hosepipe - it's a target of one of The Greens (8,4) |
