| COATE | I had my first cream tea in this old place about 1.5 miles from Devizes (5) |
| NOTTINGTON | I had my first tipple, a gin and tonic, around noon in the Turks Head about two miles from the centre of Weymouth (10) |
| MADECERTAIN | Ensured totally by creating a cream tea in depth (4,7) |
| BANANA | Disallow an actor's first cream pie ingredient (6) |
| ALTARNUN | My aunt, a leading novelist, has a large place on the riverside, about 1.5 miles from Laneast (8) |
| STFAGANS | I spotted a small stag at the top of the field next to my back garden about 1.5 miles from Peterstonsuper-Ely (2,6) |
| BINNEGAR | My grannie lives by the beachfront about 1.5 miles from Wareham (8) |
| OUIJA | Juliet and I have been to three seances in this old, haunted place in the centre of Truro, where they use a board with letters to contact the dead (5) |
| CHINA | Had some tea in this country (5) |
| KYOTO | City in Honshu (pop about 1.5 million), once the imperial capital of Japan (5) |
| MAINE | A coastal state in the north-east of the US (pop about 1.5 million) (5) |
| CHAIN | You can get tea in this type of store (5) |
| BANDH | India's all out in this old one-day Cup? (5) |
| HORDE | Huge crowd in Bath or Devizes (5) |
| QUART | Having barred entrance in dosser's place, about right for a couple of beers |
| OZONE | By sea, you could take in this old region |
| GLASS | It holds about 1.5 ounces |
| ESCOMB | Village in County Durham on the River Wear, about 1.5 miles west of Bishop Auckland, that has one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon churches in England |
| LEIPZIG | The last letter I sent to my sweetheart, a GP who has a large place in the centre of Devizes, was about organising our trip to a place in Germany (7) |
| RAKISH | I had my hair done at this top salon in West Knoyle -- it looks extraordinarily bold and fashionable (6) |