| STRONGEST | Containing the most alcohol |
| ENNERDALE | Containing the most-westerly lake in the Lake District, a remote Cumbrian valley forming part of the Coast to Coast walk route (9) |
| MEATIEST | Containing the most subject matter but of least interest to a vegetarian |
| OXON | Abbreviated name for the county containing the Vale of the White Horse and parts of the Chilterns with the snake's-head fritillary as its flower (4) |
| DURHAM | City on the Wear, site of a castle constructed in 1072 under the orders of William the Conqueror and a cathedral containing the tomb of the Venerable Bede (6) |
| ALIBABA | Poor woodcutter in the Arabian Nights entertainments who discovers that the magic words 'open sesame' will open the doors of a cave containing the treasure of the Forty Thieves |
| ABDOMEN | Section of the body between the thorax and the pelvis containing the digestive organs, pancreas, liv |
| AFRICA | Containing the world's longest river, the largest hot desert and home to the biggest land mammal, the secondlargest continent on Earth (6) |
| ASHTRAYS | Proof of the fire picked up by consumers in the cafeteria containing the last of the Cubans (8) |
| RAINBOW | The arc containing the colors of the spectrum |
| BINYON | English poet best known for his composition For the Fallen containing the line "We will remember the |
| ORDINAL | What is the book containing the forms for the ordination of priests and consecration of bishops? (7) |
| ORION | Constellation known as the Hunter containing the stars Rigel and Betelgeuse and the "Three Sisters" |
| CANISMINOR | Constellation containing the star Procyon, said to symbolise one of the dogs following the hunter Orion (5,5) |
| OYSTER | Shellfish said to be most seasonal during the months containing the letter "r" (6) |
| ARK | (Judaism) Sacred chest where the ancient Hebrews kept the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments. |
| ANKLE | Known in Latin as the tarsus, a region of the body containing the talus and talocrural joint (5) |
| BOOTES | From the Greek meaning "ox-driver" and containing the orange giant Arcturus, the Herdsman constellation (6) |
| ROSEAYLMER | Poem by Walter Savage Landor containing the lines 'Ah, what avails the sceptred race/Ah, what the form divine!/What every virtue, every grace!' |
| ABBEY | Westminster -; Gothic church containing the shrine of St Edward the Confessor that has been the setting of every coronation since 1066(5) |
