| WENDOVER | Bucks. town on the Ridgeway - ever down, sadly (8) |
| IVINGHOE | Buckinghamshire beacon on the Ridgeway ... featured in thriving hoedown (8) |
| MARLOW | Bucks town on the Thames (6) |
| TRAILS | National a"; network of 15 long-distance footpaths including the South West Coast Path, the Ridgeway and the Pennine Way (6) |
| EMACIATES | Siamese cat, with head down, sadly grows weak (9) |
| HANDTOWEL | Small drying cloth is a let-down sadly after end of lunch (4,5) |
| AMERSHAM | Much of the new world bogus, according to Bucks town (8) |
| BARROW | Two-wheeled handcart; or, an ancient tumulus such as Wayland's Smithy on the Berkshire Ridgeway (6) |
| BEACONSFIELD | Bucks town - Disraeli's peerage (12) |
| OLNEY | Bucks town with pancake race (5) |
| MARCOPOLO | Bucks town mostly welcoming busy old traveller |
| IVER | Bucks town near Wood Lane fishery - in Liverpool! (4) |
| HIGHWYCOMBE | South Bucks town (4,7) |
| EGYPT | Setting of a 1937 novel by Agatha Christie Featuring the characters Linnet Ridgeway and Simon Doyle (5) |
| LAKE | Ridgeway Fisheries' four inter-linking lakes (*trek seawall) (7,4) |
| WALTERS | Ridgeway Fisheries' four inter-linking lakes (*trek seawall) (7,4) |
| STP | ___ 500, annual race in Ridgeway, Va. |
| SOAR | Leicester's river starts south of ancient Ridgeway (4) |
| ROAD | Thoroughfare such as a motorway, green lane or an ancient holloway or ridgeway (4) |
| WOOLWICH | A town on the Thames, and also a suburb on the north bank of the 1/13/3 (8) |
