| LOON | Bird such as the common - also called the Great Northern diver |
| URSA | The constellation - Major is also called the Great Bear (4) |
| THAR | Desert located in Rajasthan state and the Sindh region, also called the Great Indian Desert (4) |
| GULL | Aquatic bird such as the common or mew - (4) |
| DACE | Small freshwater fish such as the Common _ (4) |
| SWEDEN | Country that lost its supremacy as a superpower in the Baltic region to Peter the Great's Russia following disastrous participation in the Great Northern War (6) |
| THOMAS | Engineer who built thousands of miles of railway in the 19th century - including the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway and the Great Northern (6, 7) |
| BRASSEY | Engineer who built thousands of miles of railway in the 19th century - including the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway and the Great Northern (6, 7) |
| NYSTAD | Swedish town that gave its name to the last peace treaty of the Great Northern War of 1700?1721 |
| BEARCOVE | newfoundland... Village on the Great northern Peninsula: 2 wds. |
| GREENISLANDCOVE | Newfoundland settlement on the Great northern Peninsula: 3 wds. |
| GROWN | Having risen to be a big noise in the Great Northern (5) |
| IVATT | Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway 1896-1911 (5,5) |
| URSAMAJOR | and 7ac, Constellation also called the Great Bear (4,5) |
| MAJOR | see 4dn, Constellation also called the Great Bear (4,5) |
| GUILLEMOT | Northern oceanic diving bird of the auk family such as the Common ___ or Black ___ (9) |
| SKEGNESS | Seaside town in Lincolnshire that's "so bracing" according to a famous poster commissioned by the Great Northern Railway in 1908 |
| ANACONDA | What snake is also called the great water boa? (8) |
| DIVER | Large waterbird such as the Black-throated ___ or Great northern ___ (5) |
| SANDPIPER | Wading bird with long legs and slender bill such as the Common ___ (9) |
