| NANTUCKET | Island off SE Massachusetts, US; a former centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| REPLICATE | Island off SE Massachusetts, US; a former centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| CAPECOD | Long sandy peninsula in SE Massachusetts, US (4,3) |
| MADAGASCAR | Island off SE Africa |
| COOKSTOWN | A former centre of the linen industry in County Tyrone, near to the Beaghmore stone circles and cairns (9) |
| MOUSEHOLE | Cornish village, a former centre of pilchard fishing |
| UNALASKA | Largest settlement of the Aleutian Islands off SW Alaska; a former centre of the Russian fur trade |
| MACCLESFIELD | A market town in Cheshire, a former centre of the silk industry (12) |
| DEWSBURY | Town in West Yorkshire, a former centre of the woollen industry (8) |
| ODRISCOLL | Roll out with disco in former centre of Ireland (1'8) |
| STAUSTELL | Town in Cornwall and former centre of china clay mining (2,7) |
| SOWETO | Urban area of Johannesburg, a former centre of opposition to apartheid |
| IVANOVO | Former centre of textile manufacture, the "Russian Manchester" in the 19th century |
| AHAB | One-legged captain of the whaling vessel Pequod in the 1851 Herman Melville novel Moby Dick (4) |
| EXIT | Go out of former centre of city (4) |
| ALBI | Former centre of Catharism in France's Tarn department |
| SOUTHGEORGIA | Barren island 800 miles southeast of the Falklands where the whaling port of Leith was abandoned in 1966 (5,7) |
| TAIWAN | Island off southeast China formerly known as Formosa (6) |
| GRANDBANKS | Submarine plateau of the continental shelf off SE Newfoundland, Canada (5,5) |
| MYSTIC | Home of the whaling ship Charles W. Morgan |
