| SUFFOLK | County bordering Cambridgeshire and Essex |
| ESSEX | County bordering Cambridgeshire and Sussex (5) |
| EASTANGLIA | English peninsula consisting of Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Cambridgeshire and Essex (4,6) |
| NORFOLK | County bordering Cambridgeshire (7) |
| STOUR | Any of several rivers in England, such as the one flowing through Wiltshire, the Blackmore Vale and Dorset or the one rising in Cambridgeshire and coursing through Dedham Vale (5) |
| IVES | St __, places in Cornwall, Cambridgeshire and Dorset (4) |
| NENE | River between Cambridgeshire and Norfolk (4) |
| ANGLIA | East ___: area consisting of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk (6) |
| HATE | Detest bowler, perhaps - and Essex opener! |
| EPPING | ___ Forest, ancient woodland between London and Essex (6) |
| GEMMA | Media personality and Essex inhabitant, _ Collins (5) |
| ROOK | Original lake at Rookery Waters, Cambridgeshire - and chess piece (4) |
| ELIZABETHANS | Miss Doolittle, a little woman, had the answer - Leicester and Essex (12) |
| HABIB | Former Leics and Essex batsman; 1999 England Test debutant (5) |
| AFTAB | Former Leics and Essex batsman; 1999 England Test debutant (5) |
| GOOCH | Graham ..... , former England and Essex cricket captain born in 1953 (5) |
| TIOGA | Pennsylvania county bordering New York, or New York county bordering Pennsylvania |
| FERMANAGH | Northern Ireland county bordering Cavan and Louth with the county town Enniskillen (9) |
| ROSCOMMON | County bordering Sligo and Galway |
| NAPA | County bordering California's Solano County |
