| EMOTIONAL | Book about an island a student moved (9) |
| JAVA | An island; a programming language (4) |
| SWOT | Keen student moved to south-west (4) |
| PLEDGED | Top performing student moved sideways as promised (7) |
| BREATHING | Book about an object showing a sign of life |
| LONGITUDE | Dava Sobel's book about an 18th-century innovation in navigation (9) |
| UTOPIA | Sir Thomas More's 1516 book about an island with an ideal society (6) |
| NARRATING | Telling us about an island, at last, coming back in good order (9) |
| REAWAKENS | Stirs about an island? |
| MACADAMIA | Bossy girl gets about island - a nut (9) |
| BLACKSPOT | A rose gardener's bane of leaf blight; a road where danger lurks; or, in Treasure Island, a pirate's mark of condemnation, death or doom (5,4) |
| RHODOLITE | Love having settled in American island, a gem (9) |
| RURITANIA | Educated girl in race on island, a land of fiction (9) |
| BARRACUDA | Predatory fish from Scottish island a bird cut up (9) |
| CATALONIA | Hipster closing off isolated island, a part of Spain (9) |
| PATAGONIA | Old man raised gun on island, a location in South America |
| GALAPAGOS | --- Islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Pacific, West of Ecuador (9) |
| POLYNESIA | Islands a girl mentioned, scattered in sea |
| SCAPAFLOW | Landlocked anchorage in the Orkney Islands, a major British naval base in both World Wars (5,4) |
| NARRATED | Told a story about an island in the west to a little boy (8) |
