| DESERTISLAND | It's in the main uninhabited |
| RUMINATE | Think it's in the main true, but garbled |
| OCTOPUS | It's in the main not a full month's work |
| ACPOWER | A nation with naval strength, we're told: it's in the mains (2,5) |
| PITCAIRN | Island in the South Pacific, part of a UK Overseas Territory; uninhabited until the landing of the mutineers of the Bounty in 1790 (8) |
| ROCKALL | Uninhabited British island in the North Atlantic, 220 miles west of the Outer Hebrides |
| 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) |
| VANUATU | New Irish in vessel heading for uninhabited islands in the Pacific (7) |
| STKILDA | Home to the UK's largest puffin colony, an uninhabited World Heritage Site whose last remaining 36 islanders were evacuated in 1930 (2,5) |
| IMBER | Uninhabited village in the military training ranges on Salisbury Plain (5) |
| EYNHALLOW | A now uninhabited islet off Mainland Orkney, originally believed to be the summer home of the Finfolk (9) |
| NORTHRONA | Island 44 miles from Cape Wrath, uninhabited since 1844, the closest land to the Faroe Islands |
| STAFFA | Uninhabited Scottish island in the Inner Hebrides, site of Fingal's Cave (6) |
| HOWLANDISLAND | Which uninhabited coral island, halfway between Hawaii and Australia, was the island Amelia Earhart was searching for when her airplane disappeared in 1937? (7,6) |
| AILSA | ___ Craig, uninhabited granite islet in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland |
| WAIST | The middle area is uninhabited, we hear (5) |
| ALGERINE | Uninhabited island on Frobisher Bay in Nunavut |
| PRECINCT | Cold more agreeable back in uninhabited Phuket region |
| SALAD | Hotchpotch of pitiful housing left uninhabited in centre (5) |
| PUFFIN | Uninhabited island off the eastern tip of Anglesey |
