| SULLOMVOE | Deep coastal inlet in the Shetland Islands (6,3) |
| UPHELLYAA | Winter fire festival held in the Shetland Islands (2,5,2) |
| YELL | How they do cry out in the Shetland Islands (4) |
| UNST | Yell's neighbour in the Shetland Islands; nuts (anag.) (4) |
| BANTRYBAY | Coastal inlet in County Cork, Eire, which includes Whiddy Island |
| HANDSTAND | Exercise routine in Shetland Islands almost completely performed without trellises, essentially (9) |
| ALCOVE | Went to a large inlet in the sea in the recess (6) |
| FRISCOBAY | Inlet in an Otis Redding hit song |
| GALWAYBAY | Inlet in Atlantic Ocean on west coast of Ireland (6,3) |
| SOUND | Plymouth ___, deep inlet in the English Channel (5) |
| STRANGFORDLOUGH | The largest inlet in the British Isles (10,5) |
| ESSENTIAL | Crucial sea inlets in devastation (9) |
| SEALOCH | Coastal inlet in Scotland (3,4) |
| BANTRY | ____ Bay, coastal inlet in Ireland's County Cork (6) |
| MAINLAND | Graduate away from the sea in part of the Shetland Islands (8) |
| RIA | Sea inlet in the Adriatic (3) |
| LERWICK | From the Old Norse meaning "bay of clay", the capital of the Shetland Islands (7) |
| BRENT | Oil and gas field in the North Sea northeast of the Shetland Islands (5) |
| INSET | On a map, this might show Hawaii or the Shetland Islands |
| FETLAR | Fourth-largest of the Shetland Islands (6) |