| ARMAGH | Historic county town in Ulster, with two cathedrals (6) |
| BANFF | Historic county town in Grampian |
| RENFREW | Historic county town in Scotland, replaced by Paisley |
| BEARDOWNON | See large beast in Ulster with odd oink move towards them, menacingly |
| HANDITIN | Surprise Institute in Ulster with note to deliver to Lost Property Office (4,2,2) |
| NORWICH | City with two cathedrals and 32A coded MPD (7) |
| LIVERPOOL | Organ fund for city with two cathedrals |
| ALUMNI | Maul disturbed by Ulster with old boys (6) |
| FLORIN | Old capital of Ulster with function briefly to offend going all the way back (6) |
| LANARK | Former county town in the Central Belt (pop about 80,000), created a royal burgh in 1140 (6) |
| EXETER | Cathedral city and county town in southwest England (pop about 130,000) (6) |
| FORFAR | Former royal burgh and county town in eastern Scotland (pop 14,000), once a textile manufacturing centre (6) |
| OAKHAM | Former county town in Rutland |
| TYRONE | Historic county in Northern Ireland whose county town is Omagh (6) |
| ARGYLL | A railway winding around central Belgium with two lines in historic county (6) |
| THURSO | Northernmost town of mainland Britain, in the historic county of Caithness (6) |
| CUPAR | Historic county town (pop about 9,000), a former royal burgh (5) |
| ALNWICK | Historic county town of Northumberland (7) |
| RADNOR | Historic county in eastern Wales (6) |
| SUSSEX | Historic county in south eastern England whose towns include Brighton and Hastings (6) |
