| STKILDA | Home to the UK's largest puffin colony, an uninhabited World Heritage Site whose last remaining 36 islanders were evacuated in 1930 (2,5) |
| WENTWORTH | Village in South Yorkshire, home to the UK's largest privately owned house with the longest facade in Europe, approximately twice as wide as Buckingham Palace |
| 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) |
| WILD | A word used to denote an uncultivated flower, an untamed animal or an uninhabited place (4) |
| PENZANCE | Cornish fishing port, home to the UK's southernmost mainland railway station (8) |
| REDDEER | Depicted in Edwin Landseer's The Monarch of the Glen, the UK's largest species of land-mammal (3,4) |
| CHESIL | - Beach; connecting the Isle of Portland to Abbotsbury, the UK's largest tombolo (6) |
| TWITTER | Social media site whose rivals end the answers to the starred clues |
| EAGLES | White-tailed -; with wingspans of up to 2.5 metres, the UK's largest birds of prey (6) |
| NEXT | Clothing retailer which overtook Marks & Spencer to become the UK's largest in 2012 |
| DEER | Ruminant whose red species is the UK's largest wild land animal (4) |
| NOCTULE | From the Latin meaning "night owl" or "small night creature", the UK's largest species of bat (7) |
| UNISON | The UK's largest trade union, whose general secretary is Christina McAnea (6) |
| ROSEBANK | The UK's largest untapped oil field whose go-ahead is under legal challenge (8) |
| CRUSOE | Defoe's literary castaway who lived "eight and twenty years, all alone in an uninhabited island", the title character of what some consider the first English novel (6) |
| PITCAIRN | The last remaining British overseas territory in the Pacific: The ___ Islands (8) |
| KICKSTARTER | Site whose mission is "to help bring creative projects to life" |
| NATE | Silver who founded a political site whose name consists of three numbers ... which are also the lengths of the three words in each theme entry |
| ROWNTREE | Henry Isaac --, founder of one of the UK's largest confectionery businesses (8) |
| SETTLER | Person who builds a home in an uninhabited country |
