| EDALE | Derbyshire village renowned as the southern starting point of the Pennine Way |
| EXETER | Southern starting point of the Fosse Way Roman road (6) |
| TRAILS | National a"; network of 15 long-distance footpaths including the South West Coast Path, the Ridgeway and the Pennine Way (6) |
| TRAIL | National -; long-distance route such as Hadrian's Wall Path or the Pennine Way (5) |
| CHAMONIX | Short name for the resort on the north side of Mont Blanc that hosted the first Winter Olympics and is the starting point of the Haute Route ski touring trail ending in Zermatt (8) |
| CROWDEN | Derbyshire village, Pennine Way's first staging point - throng East, North (7) |
| HEMEL | 2018 RFL League 1 and 2019 Conference League South club whose home is the Pennine Way Stadium (5,5) |
| STAGS | 2018 RFL League 1 and 2019 Conference League South club whose home is the Pennine Way Stadium (5,5) |
| TIDESWELL | Derbyshire village whose largest church is known as the "Cathedral of the Peak" (9) |
| PEAK | --- District, a region of Derbyshire, England, at the southern end of the Pennines (4) |
| PAVO | The Peacock, grouped with the nearby constellations of Grus, Tucana and Phoenix as the 'Southern Birds' (4) |
| TROY | Start of a word ladder (and the starting point of the journey) |
| BRAEMAR | Scottish village, the starting point of the 1715 Jacobite rising (7) |
| FARNHAM | Town in North West Surrey, the western starting point of the North Downs Way (7) |
| GLOSSOP | Market town in Derbyshire north-west of Kinder Scout at the foot of the Pennines (7) |
| LIVEOAK | Evergreen hardwood tree of North America such as the Southern - whose timber was used in shipbuildin |
| ANTARCTIC | ___ Ocean, body of water also known as the Southern Ocean (9) |
| INDEPENDENCE | City in Missouri; starting point of the Santa Fe Trail in the 19th century (12) |
| FOLKESTONE | The English starting point of the Channel Tunnel is near this Kent town |
| XIAN | Chinese city that was the starting point of the Silk Road |
