| BIBLEBELT | Christian fundamentalist areas of the US (5,4) |
| ANTARCTIC | Popular name for the far southern areas of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic; the ... Ocean (9) |
| SCRATCHES | Abraded areas of the skin (9) |
| AMIGO | Friend (in Spanish speaking areas of the US) (5) |
| RUSTBELT | Urban areas of the US suffering industrial decline (4,4) |
| VAQUERO | Herdsman or cattle driver in Spanish speaking areas of the US (7) |
| PENTESTAL | Fundamentalist Christian |
| RADICALLY | Dropped acid during demo, fundamentalist-fashion (9) |
| BORNAGAIN | Fundamentalist ran a bingo game (4-5) |
| TERRORISM | Fundamentalist error is made about menace (9) |
| HEELS | Areas of the body associated with Achilles; parts of the palms; regions of golf clubs opposite toes; or, the frogs of violin bows (5) |
| PEONY | Plant of the buttercup family with large showy flowers which grows profusely in mountainous areas of the Spanish region of Extremadura, and is also known as the Rose of Alexandria (5) |
| DUSTBOWL | Area of the US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion in the 1930s (4,4) |
| OZARK | The --- Mountains are a highland area of the US (5) |
| HARDLINER | Fundamentalist (9) |
| PALOALTO | City in the San Francisco Bay area of the US (4,4) |
| ROTUNDA | Central area of the US Capitol |
| ALASKA | Area of the US after rude boy music? (6) |
| BLUEROCK | Bird, a species of chat, which is a resident of Mallorca and can be seen in mountainous areas of the island such as Boquer and Formentor in the north east (4,4,6) |
| THRUSH | Bird, a species of chat, which is a resident of Mallorca and can be seen in mountainous areas of the island such as Boquer and Formentor in the north east (4,4,6) |
