| COWDENBEATH | Fife town which had a booming coal-mining industry (11) |
| THEVALLEYS | Local or informal name of a region of South Wales that was once at the heart of the Welsh coal mining industry (3,7) |
| KERKRADE | City in the Netherlands on the German border formerly associated with the coal-mining industry (8) |
| DUNFERMLINE | Fife town (11) |
| ICHTHYOSAUR | Extinct marine Mesozoic reptile which had a porpoise-like body (11) |
| DANNYWILSON | Band formed in Dundee which had a 1988 hit with 'Mary's Prayer' (5,6) |
| SOUPDRAGONS | The -, band formed in Belshill in 1985 which had a 1990 hit with 'I'm Free' (4,7) |
| REDRUTH | Cornish town once a hub of the copper-mining industry |
| TAYPORT | Move a party to the Fife town south of Broughty Ferry (7) |
| KIRKCALDY | Fife town nicknamed the Lang Town (9) |
| GLENROTHES | Fife town in which the Kingdom Shopping Centre can be found (10) |
| CUPAR | Sounds like comedy magician Tommy in a Fife town (5) |
| AUCHTERMUCHTY | Fife town in which Charlie and Craig Reid of The Proclaimers were raised (13) |
| KAKAPO | A flightless ground-waddling "night parrot" with a whiskered face and a booming lek - endemic to New Zealand, thus a symbol of its unique biodiversity, sights and sounds (6) |
| SALINA | New York town named for its salt-mining industry |
| HEAVE | In the mining industry, to displace (as a vein) (5) |
| SAND | Resource with a $70 billion global mining industry |
| ROSYTH | Fife town famous for its large dockyard (6) |
| METHIL | Gas escaping collapsed megaliths in Fife town (6) |
| FOGHORN | Word for a booming noisemaker serving to warn sailors/ships in brume, fret, haar or mist; or, a loud bellowing voice, evocative of such a klaxon (7) |
