| WINTERTIME | How meteorologist might describe weeks around Christmas in the Met Office to season served in prison |
| ROCKALL | Sea area lying between Shannon and Bailey in the Met Office's shipping forecast map (7) |
| ILEXES | We're common around Christmas in Illinois, we're not what we were |
| SARAWAK | Like to back artist having week around a part of Malaysia (7) |
| WAITED | Attended during the week around a college (6) |
| UDOMETER | Although not included in the Met Office's official glossary, an old term for a rain gauge (8) |
| AIDA | The "A" in the so-called ABCs of Opera, the most-performed operas in the Met's history |
| ANEMOMETER | Tests how the wind is blowing for windy sort measuring speed at the Met office (10) |
| FITZROY | Captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's voyage who wrote The Weather Book, invented a barometer and founded in 1854 what became the Met Office (7) |
| TEMPERATURES | The nurses take them from the Met office (12) |
| ISOTHERMS | Hotlines to the Met Office (9) |
| EXETER | English city housing the headquarters of the Met Office (6) |
| AGNES | First storm named by the Met Office in 2023-24 |
| WEATHERFORECAST | A meteorological prediction supplied by e.g. the Met Office (7,8) |
| WIGHT | One of the Met Office's shipping forecast areas named after islands (5) |
| TOSCANINI | Important figure in the Met once in action, wandering round capital of Spain |
| STAGG | Group Captain James ___, Met Office meteorologist who persuaded Dwight D. Eisenhower to change the date of the Normandy landings (5) |
| DEADOFWINTER | No life in them at Christmas in the middle of the cold (4,2,6) |
| TIMEFORLUNCH | It's served in prison in place of midday break traditionally at one o'clock (4,3,5) |
| NEWSCOTLANDYARD | The Met Office? (3,8,4) |
