| TOCAPITALL | Destined for Great Lake as the last thing |
| HIGHFLIERS | Lofty leaflets for young MPs destined for great things, say? (4-6) |
| CANAL | Is it possible to have a lake as the waterway? (5) |
| OJIBWAFFLE | Breakfast order for Great Lakes natives? |
| BURNEJONES | Artist who is seen as the last of the Pre-Raphaelites; his works include Love and the Pilgrim and collection of watercolours in The Flower Book (5-5) |
| ELIZABETHI | Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's daughter whose reign as the last Tudor monarch saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (9,1) |
| PATRIOTISM | Term used to describe devotion to one's own country - Samuel Johnson defined it as 'the last refuge of the scoundrel' |
| KINGOFTYRE | Hail him as the last of what he was in ancient history - that's the story, Rory! (4,4,2,4) |
| SOUNDFISHY | Seem suspicious, as the last words of starred answers do? (5,5) |
| MNEMONICDEVICES | ROYGBIV for rainbow colors and HOMES for Great Lakes, e. g. |
| SOPHIETUCKER | Billed as "The Last of the Red Hot Mamas", who was one of the US's most popular singers and comedians of the first third of the 20th Century? (6,6) |
| ODILE | The Black Swan in Swan Lake (as opposed to Odette, the White Swan) (5) |
| BUFFALO | Steer perhaps for Great Lakes port |
| REELED | Staggered at river lake as had set the pace (6) |
| LAND | Lake as well as countryside (4) |
| NYASA | African lake as strange as any (5) |
| LLYN | Welsh for 'lake' - as in Llyn Aled (4) |
| OREGON | American state with Crater Lake as its only national park (6) |
| LOCH | Scottish lake as in 'Hope' (agapanthus), 'Tay' (blackberry) and 'Lundie' (narcissus)! (4) |
| ONTARIO | Working space satellite capturing salt lake, as an example (7) |
