| PLYMOUTH | Known as Britain's "Ocean City" and home to England's oldest gin distillery, a port from which the Pilgrim Fathers set sail in the Mayflower in 1620 (8) |
| POTENZ | German word for power, from which the p in pH (pH scale etc.) is thought to be derived (6) |
| OXFORD | City home to England's oldest university (6) |
| RESORTS | Ocean City and Rehoboth |
| PSAT | H.S. exam in which the "P" stands for "preliminary" |
| STILTON | UK village which gave its name to the cheese known as Britain's Historic Blue |
| GOTHAM | City and home to Batman (6) |
| EDINBURGH | Scottish city and home to five National Galleries of Art (9) |
| DENMARK | Name of the street in Camden, London, known as Britain's Tin Pan Alley |
| OXONIAN | Relating to England's oldest university |
| UPROARIOUS | Pour out a port from America that's priceless (10) |
| HISTORICAL | 14 across is a port from a former era (10) |
| LACORUNA | What is the Spanish name of the port from which the Armada sailed in 1588? (2,6) |
| BREMERHAVEN | Lower Saxony port from which the first regular shipping service between continental Europe and the USA began in 1847 |
| AULIS | Boeotian port from which the Greek army under Agamemnon is said to have set sail for the Trojan War (5) |
| EPIDAUROS | Ancient Greek city on the Argolid coast and home to a sanctuary that is now a Unesco World Heritage Site, named after the son of Apollo (9) |
| RIDGEWAY | A track, such as the ancient trail identified as Britain's oldest road, that follows a hilltop (8) |
| AFRICA | Containing the world's longest river, the largest hot desert and home to the biggest land mammal, the secondlargest continent on Earth (6) |
| RHODES | Greek island in the Aegean Sea, largest of the Dodecanese and home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (6) |
| MORAR | With Ben Nevis in its view and home to the legendary Morag, loch which is the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles (5) |
