| ROANOKE | Island where the British first settled America |
| ASCENSION | Atlantic island where the British established a garrison to guard Napoleon during his exile |
| COLDSTREAM | A burgh in the Scottish Borders where the British Army's oldest continuously serving regiment was originally raised (10) |
| TRAFALGAR | Cape in the Spanish province of Cadiz, south-west Spain, where the British Admiral Lord Nelson won a major battle in 1805 (9) |
| ERIE | Lake where the British suffered an 1813 naval defeat |
| INDIA | Where the British Raj ruled |
| EDENHOPE | First settled by RC and G Hope from River Eden in Scotland, what is the administrative centre of the |
| IBIZA | Island in the Mediterranean, first settled by Phoenicians in 654 BC (5) |
| NOVASCOTIA | Province of Canada first settled by the French as Acadia |
| DEBUT | New duet gets British first performance (5) |
| DATURA | Honey of a guy, British, first class (6) |
| BRISTLED | Was incensed by "British first!" and went in front (8) |
| SOPWITH | --- Camel, a British First World War single-seat biplane (7) |
| BURY | British first use railway line put underground (4) |
| SOPWITHCAMEL | British First World War biplane |
| BRIE | French cheese that is British first (4) |
| FORTMCHENRY | National Monument in Baltimore where the British attacked in 1814: 2 wds. |
| COWDRAYPARK | Country estate in West Sussex where the British Open Polo Championship takes place (7,4) |
| DOWNINGSTREET | Deserting town like this, where the British PM is concerned (7,6) |
| THAILAND | South-east Asian country where the British woman vanished before reappearing in Georgia. (8) |
