| BORABORA | Island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia used as a US military supply |
| TAHITI | Largest island of tne Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia (6) |
| HOLYLOCH | Body of seawater at the Cowal Peninsula, Scotland, once used as a US nuclear submarine base (4, 4) |
| SOCIETYISLANDS | Windward and Leeward groups |
| BARBUDA | A coral island in the Leeward Islands of the Caribbean, part of a twinisland state with Antigua (7) |
| AUSTRAL | What word for "southern", when capitalised, can be a suburb of Sydney, a hotel in Rundle Street or the southernmost islands of French Polynesia? (7) |
| HEYERDAHL | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| THOR | Norwegian anthropologist who crossed the Pacific from Peru to the Tuamotu Islands of French Polynesia on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947 (4,9) |
| ANGUILLA | West Indies Island in the Leeward Islands group east of Puerto Rico (8) |
| OAKLEAF | Any one of the Quercus folios symbolising the National Trust or forming a cluster on a US military decoration; or, a lettuce with serrated edges, like said foliage (3-4) |
| MONTSERRAT | A volcanic island in the Caribbean, in the Leeward Islands (10) |
| OAKSLEAF | A maple's leaf is a symbol of Canada; an ...' . ... (with three acorns) is a US military decoration (3'1,4) |
| GUADALOUPEAN | Resident of a French overseas territory in the Leeward Islands (12) |
| BORA | When doubled, a member of the Society Islands |
| SAYONARA | 1957 film starring Marlon Brando as a US Air Force pilot in Japan who falls for a local woman |
| STANSTED | Airport in Essex that opened in 1943 as a US Air Force bomber base (8) |
| ANGUILLAN | Inhabitant of a UK Overseas Territory in the Leeward Islands (9) |
| ABCISLANDS | Acronym or abbreviated name for the group in the Leeward Antilles comprising Aruba, Bonaire and Cura |
| TAHITIANS | It's a hint: a group from the Society Islands (9) |
| PAPEETE | Capital of the Society Islands |
