| BRAINTREE | Essex town which contains the sub-district of Bocking |
| COMFREY | From "boil together, heal", the boraginaceous "knitbone" herb such as the "Bocking 14" favourite, used for green "chop 'n' drop" (7) |
| DOWNINGSTREET | The London street which contains the official residences of the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer (7,6) |
| DEVON | With two coastlines, county which contains the National Parks of Dartmoor and of Exmoor and five Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty including the Blackdown Hills (5) |
| IBERIS | Botanical name of the sub-shrub commonly called candytuft (6) |
| INDIAN | Of the sub-continent (6) |
| MALIGN | Speak evil of the sub-normal, ignorantly (6) |
| DUMKA | City in India serving as the sub-capital of Jharkhand state (5) |
| GANGES | Sacred river of the sub-continent |
| SONVALLS | Village in the municipality of felanitx, Mallorca which contains the Iglesia de Cristo Rey whose day is celebrated there on the Sunday before Advent each year (3,5) |
| TIVOLI | Italian town east of Rome which contains the remains of Hadrian's villa (6) |
| EASTLOTHIAN | Formerly Haddingtonshire, area which contains the town of Musselburgh |
| LARYNX | Name the cavity in the human windpipe which contains the vocal (6) |
| KREMLIN | Citadel in Moscow which contains the offices of the Russian government (7) |
| ABDOMEN | Area of the body which contains the stomach and bowels (7) |
| LAGIOCONDA | Opera by Ponchielli which contains the ballet Dance of the Hours (2,8) |
| EGHAM | English town, in Surrey, which contains the field of Runnymede (5) |
| INDIA | Find Ian in the sub-continent (5) |
| SARI | Garment from the sub-continent could make Paris quietly (4) |
| BASEMENT | Soldiers in HQ head to the sub- ground level (8) |
