| STAUSTELL | Coastal town in S Cornwall associated with the china clay industry |
| POTTERSWHEEL | A turning-point in the china clay industry (7,5) |
| CUTTYSARK | Fast swing ship built in 1869 for the China tea trade, now on display in Greenwich, London (5,4) |
| BULLFINCH | Bird that created havoc in the china shop? (9) |
| TECHNICAL | Let China clay initially be moulded by expert (9) |
| JANEFONDA | Two-time Academy Award-winning US actress whose films include Book Club,9 To 5, Monster-In-Law, On Golden Pond, This Is Where I Leave You and The China Syndrome (4,5) |
| SIDEBOARD | Some whiskers in the china cabinet (9) |
| SOFTPASTE | Unlike china clay spread around post feast |
| KAOLINITE | Chief constituent of china clay |
| FOWEY | Port town in Cornwall associated with Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier (5) |
| TINTAGEL | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Castle, fortification in north Cornwall associated with Arthurian legend (8) |
| ISSUS | Ancient town in S. Asia Minor where Alexander the Great defeated the Persians in 333 B.C. (5) |
| IFE | A town in S.W. Nigeria the largest in Yoruba land |
| DELFT | Town in S Holland, Netherlands, associated with a type of tin-glazed earthenware (5) |
| LUXOR | Town in S. Egypt: the southern part of the site of ancient Thebes (5) |
| EDEN | ____ Project, eco visitor attraction in a reclaimed china clay pit in Cornwall (4) |
| LLANELLI | Industrial town in S Wales on the Loughor estuary (8) |
| HAMILTON | Town in S. Lanarkshire and city in New Zealand (8) |
| ASWAN | Ancient town in S.E. Egypt on the Nile (5) |
| KAOLIN | China clay used for porcelain, whose name in question refers to the high hill in Jiangxi province where said lithomarge was first obtained (6) |