| DEVON | County whose seaside village Westward Ho! is the only place in the UK to contain an exclamation mark or "shriek" in its name (5) |
| CALI | Only place in the U.S. to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics, informally |
| LEIGHTON | ___ Buzzard: Bedfordshire town, the only place in England to have buzzard in its name (8) |
| GORBALS | Area in Glasgow which during the 1930s was called the most dangerous place in the UK (7) |
| GEMSTATE | Nickname for the only place in America to find star garnet, appropriately enough |
| CORONATION | Monarchical event that took place in the UK in 1937, 1953 and 2023 (10) |
| THEIVY | West End restaurant founded in 1917 that has expanded into various places in the UK and Ireland |
| LOOS | Going places in the UK? |
| GOWER | Welsh peninsula, the first area in the UK to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in 1956 |
| REMAINED | Name given to a person who voted for the UK to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum (8) |
| ANDERSON | Elizabeth Garrett _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , the first woman in the UK to qualify as a professional doctor in 1865 (8) |
| LEGAVROCHE | London restaurant that was the first in the UK to be awarded three Michelin stars (2,8) |
| BLASPHEMY | Crime for which Edinburgh student Thomas Aikenhead was the last person in the UK to be hanged (9) |
| KINGSLEY | Queen Victoria's personal chaplain and the future Edward VII's private tutor, who wrote The Water-Babies and Westward Ho!, the latter inspiring the name of a seaside village in Devon (8) |
| DICKIN | ___ Medal, highest award given in the UK to animals serving in military conflicts (6) |
| RECORDPLAYER | Name later applied in the UK to Thomas Edison's 1877 invention (6,6) |
| WESTWARDHO | Charles Kingsley novel or the only British place-name ending with an exclamation mark (8,2) |
| WIGGINS | Winner of multiple medals, this cyclist was the first from the United Kingdom to win the Tour de France |
| GOHOME | What message did the swimmer protests give to Shell and other corporate oil hunters? Has an exclamation mark. (2,5) |
| STJAMES | The royal court of the UK, to which foreign diplomats are accredited (2,5) |
