| HYTHE | Central port of the original Cinque Ports, between Hastings and New Romney to the west and Dover and Sandwich to the east |
| INTERIOR | Central port in Bury (8) |
| CLIVE | Between Hastings and Napier, what town is named after a ruthless general who helped secure an Indian empire for Britain? (5) |
| EXPORTS | Foreign currency earners from Sandwich and New Romney? |
| ROMPER | Republican comes back to Romney to start in one-piece (6) |
| YUCATAN | A northeastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east. (7) |
| NEWROMNEY | Market town in Kent; one of the original Cinque Ports (3,6) |
| DOVER | White-cliffed Channel town, one of the original Cinque Ports |
| AEGEAN | ___ Sea, arm of the Mediterranean located between the Greek peninsula to the west and Turkey to the east (6) |
| TIROL | Alpine province of western Austria between Vorarlberg to the west and Salzburg and Carinthia to the east (5) |
| LOMBOK | Island of southern Indonesia between Bali to the west and Sumbawa to the east (6) |
| CINQUE | And 20. Hastings. Sandwich, Dover, New Romney and Hythe (6,5) |
| TOGO | Which African country has Ghana to the west and Benin to the east? (4) |
| PORTS | Hastings. Sandwich, Dover, New Romney and Hythe (6.5) |
| HASTINGS | One of the medieval Cinque Ports with Sandwich, Dover and others (8) |
| JACQUILAIT | Former Conservative MP for Hastings and Rye and for Beckenham who stood down at the 2010 general election. |
| CHANNEL | Body of water between Calais and Dover, the English ... |
| QUICKENS | Hurries up king entering original Cinque Ports at last (8) |
| WAS | Had been to the West and the South |
| LUXEMBOURG | Landlocked country in Western Europe bordered by Belgium to the West and North (10) |
