| NOMANISANISLAND | Famous quotation contradicted in part of the British Isles (2,3,2,2,6) |
| STKILDA | Situated 41 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, an archipelago evacuated in 1930 which is the remotest part of the British Isles (2,5) |
| THERESNOIINTEAM | Adage contradicted by the circled letters? |
| FAMOUSLASTWORDS | Passing comment, soon to be contradicted? (6,4,5) |
| CIBEFOREEEXCEPT | Rule contradicted by science? |
| ERIN | Queen in part of the British Isles she doesn't entirely reign over (4) |
| SARK | Small rescue vessel, in 1945, lib-erated part of the British Isles (4) |
| ENGLAND | In point, dangle over part of the British Isles |
| ENGLISHMAN | Male inhabitant of part of the British Isles (10) |
| SCOTLAND | Spooner has lot scanned in part of the British Isles |
| SCOTIA | Part of the British Isles, poetically |
| IRISHSEA | Dubliners see, they say, main part of the British Isles (5,3) |
| WELSH | Native to one part of the British Isles (5) |
| IRELAND | I'd learn about part of the British Isles |
| OFMAN | Self-governing island in the Irish Sea at the geographical heart of the British Isles, the Isle ... |
| IRISHFREE | Name, from 1922-37, of the area of the British Isles now called the Republic of Ireland (5,4,5) |
| LERWICK | Northernmost town of the British Isles, in the Shetlands on the island of Mainland (7) |
| KOHINOOR | Forming part of the British Crown Jewels, one of the largest cut diamonds in the world (3-1-4) |
| DIEGOGARCIA | Largest and southernmost island of the Chagos Archipelago in the central Indian Ocean, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (5,6) |
| STREAM | Warm North Atlantic current that tempers the climate of the British Isles, the Gulf ... |
