| SANDOWN | Isle of Wight seaside resort (7) |
| RYDE | Isle of Wight seaside resort that boasts the world's oldest seaside pleasure pier |
| SHANKLIN | Popular Isle of Wight seaside resort on Sandown Bay |
| VENTNOR | Seaside resort in southeast Isle of Wight (7) |
| NEEDLES | The ____ , row of three stacks of chalk off the western end of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| OSBORNE | Name of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's former seaside retreat or hideaway on the Isle of Wight (7) |
| NEWPORT | The administrative centre of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| MORISOT | First lady of Impressionism whose paintings include Eugene Manet on the Isle of Wight, Summer's Day and Hanging the Laundry out to Dry (7) |
| COWHIDE | Concealed in Isle of Wight resort shortly, one may get tanned (7) |
| NSBORNE | House, former royal residence on the Isle of Wight (7) |
| CAMERON | Soft-focus pioneer who photographed distinguished friends and visitors including John Herschel and Alfred Tennyson in her converted shed on the Isle of Wight (7) |
| FASTNET | Offshore race sailed from Cowes, Isle of Wight, to Plymouth, Devon (7) |
| ICESHOW | Perhaps a job for Dean of College - she worked in the Isle of Wight |
| UFFAFOX | Isle of Wight-born sailor and boat designer who died in 1972 (4,3) |
| THENEEDLES | Group of chalk stacks in the sea off the western tip of the Isle of Wight (3,7) |
| SOLENT | The ?, strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (6) |
| CARISBROOKE | ? Castle, a place of imprisonment of Charles I near Newport on the Isle of Wight (11) |
| COWES | Resort on the Isle of Wight on the estuary of the River Medina (5) |
| YARMOUTH | Isle of Wight resort |
| IOWA | Isle of Wight shortly a State of America? (4) |