| BONGTREE | Feature of land reached by the owl and the pussycat (4,4) |
| SURVEYOR | Someone who maps out the area and features of land (8) |
| IOWA | Land reached by ferry, a state |
| PEAGREEN | Colour of the boat travelled in by the owl and the pussycat in a nonsense poem by Edward Lear (3-5) |
| RUNCIBLE | Type of spoon taken by the owl and the pussycat |
| NONSENSE | Form of verse such as Lear's The Owl And The Pussycat or Carroll's Jabberwocky |
| ANGLESEY | Largest of Wales's islands, reached by the Menai Suspension Bridge designed by Thomas Telford (8) |
| VELOCITY | Speed reached by the Spanish in very old metropolis |
| RUNCIBLESPOON | Cutlery item employed by the Owl and the Pussy-Cat in Edward Lear's poem |
| EDWARDLEAR | Author and poet who popularised limericks and wrote The Owl and The Pussycat (6,4) |
| BOAT | Pea-green vessel in The Owl and the Pussycat; one of the seated yoga poses; or, a jug for gravy/sauce (4) |
| QUINCE | Preferred fruit of the owl and the pussycat? (6) |
| LEAR | 19th Century author and poet who wrote The Owl and The Pussycat (4) |
| EDWARD | ___ Lear, writer of The Owl and the Pussycat (6) |
| STROKE | The distance between the highest and lowest points reached by the piston moving in the cylinder (6) |
| TOSEA | 'The owl and the pussycat went ... in a beautiful peagreen boat' (2,3) |
| ASEA | Like the Owl and the Pussycat |
| WENTTOSEA | Spooner's dispatched for a tinkle like the owl and the pussycat did (4,2,3) |
| CRANEOPERATOR | Switchboard worker reached by the poet who wrote "The Bridge"? |
| BARN | Farm or rural building used by the owl Tyto alba as a nesting place (4) |
