| THETROSSACHS | Combined with 68ac, it's a 43dn (3,9) |
| LOCHLOMOND | Combined with 6dn, it's a 43dn (4,6) |
| CAIRNGORMS | It's a 43dn (10) |
| BLACK | NZ women's Test rugby team - see 68ac (5,5) |
| CATHEDRAL | & 68ac Hahei coastal attraction in the Coromandel (9,4) |
| PEACEONEARTH | Song combined with Little Drummer Boy and recorded in 1977 for Bing Crosby's Merrie Olde Christmas as a duet with David Bowie |
| TARAMASALATA | Ace curried mixture in pastry combined with a fish dish (12) |
| HEARTSTOPPER | Suit combined with big hat - it's a great shock |
| IMPARTIALITY | Parity combined with a limit creates fairness(12) |
| IANHISLOP | Editor of 8dn 43dn (3,6) |
| LOCHABER | Area bidding to be 43dn (8) |
| SCOTTISH | And 67ac Area bidding to be 43dn (8) |
| TAYFOREST | Area bidding to be 43dn (3,6) |
| GALLOWAY | Area bidding to be 43dn (8) |
| LOCHAWE | Area bidding to be 43dn (4,3) |
| ADAMS | see 43dn, Author best known for Watership Down |
| DESSERTWINES | Drinks diners combined with sweets, perhaps (7,5) |
| PEGASUS | Area on the east coast of the South Island, formerly known as Cook's Mistake - w 43dn (7,3) |
| STAMP | see 43dn, English actor whose films include The Collector, Far From The Madding Crowd and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert |
| DUN | Greyish brown; a horse with a coat of this colour, combined with a black mane and tail; an importunate debt collector; a hill-fort; or, a fishing fly resembling a subimago mayfly (3) |
