| AMBRIDGE | Fictional village whose only pub is The Bull (8) |
| LINCHPIN | Liberal chip supply in pub is the vital ingredient (8) |
| BATHER | Inside pub is the man who gets soaked? (6) |
| VICARAGE | The Murder at the -; one of Agatha Christie's crime novels set in the quaint fictional village St Mary Mead (8) |
| INISFREE | Fictional village in Ireland that is the setting for John Ford's 1952 film The Quiet Man (8) |
| DARROWBY | Fictional village in the books portrayed in film and television as All Creatures Great and Small (8) |
| MENANDER | Comic dramatist of ancient Greece (c. 342-292 BC) whose only complete extant play is Dyskolos (The Grouch or The Curmudgeon) (8) |
| SALINGER | Author whose only published novel was "The Catcher in the Rye" (8) |
| MARGARET | And 27 US author whose only novel was 1936's Gone with the Wind (8,8) |
| RICKETTS | Michael ........ , striker whose only England appearance was against the Netherlands in 2002 (8) |
| ACHILLES | Greek warrior whose only weakness was his ankle? (8) |
| DITCHLING | East Sussex village whose Beacon is one of the highest points on the South Downs (9) |
| TIDESWELL | Derbyshire village whose largest church is known as the "Cathedral of the Peak" (9) |
| JOHNBLOW | English Baroque composer and organist whose only stage composition was the opera Venus and Adonis |
| KATEBUSH | Singer whose only Christmas-themed single was December Will Be Magic Again, in 1979 |
| LEOSAYER | British singer whose only No.1 single was When I Need You from 1977 (3,5) |
| GLENDARROCH | The fictional village which was the setting for the TV series, ' Take the High Road' (11) |
| MUCHWENLOCK | Shropshire village whose sports were an inspiration for the modern Olympic Games (4,7) |
| CRABBE | A poet and entomologist noted for The Village whose Marsh Flowers became one of Benjamin Britten's Five Flower Songs (6) |
| BRIGHOUSEANDRASTRICK | Yorkshire villages whose brass band accompanied Terry Wogan in The Floral Dance on Top of the Pops in 1977 |
