| SLOUGHOFDESPOND | Deep bog lying between the City of Destruction and the Wicket Gate in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) (6,2,7) |
| PLAINSOFABRAHAM | Plateau in E Canada between the city of Quebec and the St Lawrence River; scene of an important British victory (1759) in the Seven Years' War (6,2,7) |
| PAD | Worn by the two batters and the wicket-keeper as protection |
| KALI | Hindu goddess of destruction and wife of Shiva (4) |
| STATE | It goes between the city and zip code in an American address |
| PFSLOAN | He wrote Eve Of Destruction and much more (1,1,5) |
| VANITYFAIR | Name of a location in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (6,4) |
| GIANT | Owner of Doubting Castle in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (5,7) |
| DESPAIR | Owner of Doubting Castle in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (5,7) |
| USTYURT | Plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya river delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the |
| HOPEFUL | Companion of Christian in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress (7) |
| AUSTRALIA | The smallest of today's continents and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. (9) |
| YUCATAN | A northeastern projection of Central America, lying between the Gulf of Mexico to the west and north and the Caribbean Sea to the east. (7) |
| KAMCHATKA | Peninsula in far eastern Russia, lying between the Sea of Okhotsk on the west and the Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea on the east. (9) |
| MANTLE | Part of the earth's interior lying between the crust and the core, believed to consist chiefly of silicate rock (6) |
| SINAI | Triangular peninsula linking Africa with Asia and lying between the Gulf of Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba. (5) |
| CISLUNAR | Of or relating to the region of space lying between the earth and the moon (8) |
| THERMOSPHERE | An atmospheric layer of the Earth, lying between the mesosphere and the exosphere (12) |
| ADRIATICSEA | An arm of the Mediterranean lying between the Italian and the Balkan peninsulas (8,3) |
| SARGASSO | Part of the North Atlantic, lying between the West Indies and the Azores, notorious for its floating seaweed (8,3) |
