| LOCHNESS | Freshwater expanse near Inverness of greater volume than all the lakes of England and Wales combined (4,4) |
| LOUDER | Sound of greater volume (6) |
| BRITAIN | England, Scotland and Wales combined |
| HILARY | Named after a French bishop, the spring term of the courts of England and Wales and the courts of Ireland as well as the universities of Oxford and of Dublin (6) |
| INTERLAKEN | Dubbed as the adventure sports capital of Switzerland, a town in the canton of Bern between the lakes of Brienz and Thun, near the Jungfrau mountain region (10) |
| AESOP | 'The Phrygian has spoken better than all,' the King of Lydia is supposed to have remarked of this Greek slave born around 620BC who put together stories like The Hare And The Tortoise and The Boy Who |
| CULLODEN | Battle of ___, confrontation between the Jacobites and the House of Hanover fought near Inverness in |
| PEAKDISTRICT | 6 and 13 Tourist area at the southern end of the Pennines; first national park of England and Wales |
| PEAK | 6 and 13 Tourist area at the southern end of the Pennines; first national park of England and Wales (4,8) |
| LINCOLNSINN | One of the four societies to which barristers of England and Wales called to the Bar must belong (8, |
| DISTRICT | Tourist area at the southern end of the Pennines; first national park of England and Wales (4,8) |
| KERRY | The Lakes of Killarney are in the centre of this Irish county |
| CULLODENMOOR | The site near Inverness in Scotland of a 1746 battle in which government troops defeated the Jacobites (8,4) |
| BAILEY | The Old ____ , the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales in London (6) |
| UGANDA | African country where the lakes of Kwania and Kyoga are situated (6) |
| BEST | The ___, simply the greatest of 6D's hits - better than all the rest! (4) |
| ACORN | Symbol of the National Trails of England and Wales (5) |
| OSAGE | ___ River, tributary of the Missouri River in the US that flows into the Lake of the Ozarks reservoi |
| OLDBAILEY | Common name of London's Central Criminal Court of England and Wales (3,6) |
| WYE | River of England and Wales which flows into the River Severn at Chepstow (3) |
