| LATAM | Business abbreviation for the geographic region which includes Brazil, Mexico and Guatemala (5) |
| LAPLAND | Conventional name for the geographic region known by its native Sami inhabitants as Sapmi (7) |
| CORPORAL | Business abbreviation for headless gangster in the barracks (8) |
| BELIZE | Country on the Eastern coast of Central America, bordered by Mexico and Guatemala (6) |
| COAST | Typically with cliffs, dunes, coves, bays, rockpools and beaches, a general word for a geographic region, border or zone where land meets seashore (5) |
| MATTY | Explorer McNair who led the first all-female expedition to to the Geographic North Pole |
| TOKYO | With a greater region which is the world's most populous metropolis, the Japanese capital, founded as Edo (5) |
| IONIA | Aegean region which gives its name to the adjacent sea (5) |
| NEGEV | Semidesert region which forms the southern part of Israel (5) |
| BAFTA | What is the usual abbreviation for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts? (5) |
| PEARY | First person to reach the geographic North Pole, he claimed |
| TIROS | Abbreviation for the series of television and infrared observation meteorological satellites launched by the U.S. starting in 1960. (5) |
| OTAGO | Region which makes up around 13% of New Zealand's total area (5) |
| RSPCA | Abbreviation for the oldest and largest animal welfare organisation in the world |
| TRACT | A region which is only partly attractive? (5) |
| ABFAB | Abbreviation for the sitcom in which Joanna Lumley portrays Patsy Stone (2,3) |
| BIOME | Major geographic region |
| MODEM | Abbreviation for the hardware device modulator-demodulator (5) |
| MOCAP | ____ is an abbreviation for the turning of actors’ movements into those of video game characters |
| BELTS | Geographic regions |