| GREECE | Country with roughly 6,000 islands |
| CANADA | Country with roughly nothing Spanish |
| ALAND | An archipelago of some 6,000 islands in the Gulf of Bothnia (5) |
| TORSO | Trunk ultimately dealt with roughly (5) |
| SCURRIES | With roughly tenth disappearing, street urchins cooked beetles (8) |
| PAR | On a ___ with (roughly the same as) |
| NDAK | State with roughly the same population as Boston, MA |
| NEAR | Earn, with roughly similar approach (4) |
| ABOUT | Dealing with roughly |
| DEMOLISH | Protest with roughly fifty in total (8) |
| MALTREAT | Deal with roughly, abuse (8) |
| SWIMMINGCOSTUME | Attire for the Lido with roughly two GCSEs, minimum |
| DUDERANCH | US holiday resort with roughly a hundred head of cattle corralled (4,5) |
| CAIRO | Second-largest city in Africa, with roughly 20 million people |
| PLUSFOURS | Trousers with roughly 10cm of extra material to hang over the knee |
| FLOURISH | Do well with roughly three to five divided by fifty |
| RAGEQUIT | Due to frustration, abandon sleazy newspaper with roughly eighty-three-per-cent equity (4-4) |
| EGYPT | Country where people played harps and flutes 6,000 years ago |
| ALTOCUMULI | Clouds with flat bases forming continuous layers at 2,400 to 6,000 metres (10) |
| DAVIDLETTERMAN | Talk show host who retired in 2015 after 6,000 episodes; he un-retired three years later with another talk show |
