| BRORA | Highland village (pop about 1,200), once the site of the UK'S most northerly coal-mine (5) |
| BARRA | A Hebridean island (22 sq miles; pop about 1,200) (5) |
| BOATOFGARTEN | Highland village (pop about 500), on the River Spey (4,2,6) |
| ENFIELD | London borough (32 sq mile; pop 350,000), once the site of the Royal Small Arms Factory (7) |
| HENHARRIER | Ground-nesting raptor with the Latin name Circus; one of the UK's most endangered breeding birds of prey (3,7) |
| STHELENS | Merseyside town home to one of the UK's most successful rugby league sides (2, 6) |
| CHEDDAR | Situated near to the site of the UK's largest gorge and famous for cheese, a village in the Mendip Hills through which the Sustrans Strawberry Line passes (7) |
| TUILERIES | Gardens in Paris, once the site of a palace (9) |
| SHETLANDISLANDS | UK's most northerly council (8,7) |
| LERWICK | UK's most northerly town (7) |
| SLOUGH | Site of the UK's first trading estate (6) |
| LUSS | Small conservation village (pop about 500) on the banks of Loch Lomond (4) |
| COMRIE | Historic conservation village (pop about 2,0000, in Perth and Kinross (6) |
| ACREFOOT | About 1,200 cubic metres |
| KURIL | Name of the island chain archipelago that extends for 750 miles (1,200 km) from the southern tip of the Kamchatka Peninsula to the northeastern corner of Hokkaido island. (5) |
| ATLAS | Series of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa, running generally southwest to northeast more than 1,200 miles (2,000 km) through the Maghreb, from the Moroccan port of Agadir in the southwest to th |
| NAMIB | A cool coastal desert extending for 1,200 miles (1,900 km) along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Angola southward across Namibia to the Western Cape province of South Africa. |
| ANNAT | Small Highland village |
| PAGES | "War and Peace" famously has more than 1,200 |
| BUZZARD | The UK's most common and most widespread bird of prey (7) |
