| LESBOS | Island the French cry about (6) |
| ENCORE | The French cry for more, which even the English echo... (6) |
| FRASER | --- Island, the largest sand island in the world, off the South East coast of Queensland (6) |
| BLYTON | Keen bridge player, gardener and pianist who set aside musical ambitions for a typewriter at her cottage "Old Thatch", to write The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Secret Island, The Wishi |
| RHODES | Release the hordes, then, for an island the sun. (6) |
| SKYROS | Greek island, the southernmost of the Sporades (6) |
| BAFFIN | ___ Island, the largest island in Canada (6) |
| 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) |
| ITHACA | Greek island, the secondsmallest of the seven main Ionian Islands (6) |
| EUBOEA | Greek island, the largest in the Med reachable by road (6) |
| PUFFIN | Auk inhabiting locations including the Faroe Islands, the Isles of Scilly, Skokholm off the Pembrokeshire coast and its neighbouring Skomer (6) |
| STATEN | ____ Island, the southernmost of New York's five boroughs (6) |
| HERMIT | Small island the very thing for recluse (6) |
| OLE | At the start of October the French cry (3) |
| QUAHOG | Fictional town in Rhode Island, the setting of the "Family Guy" cartoon |
| BORNEO | Asian island, the highest point of which is Mount Kinabalu (6) |
| LASHOUT | 'Attaquez' as the French cry |
| DISCREETLY | The French cry when on a diet but do it cautiously |
| LAUGH | The French cry of disgust produces a sound of merriment (5) |
| AEGEAN | ___ Islands (the Cyclades and others) |
