| LOUGHNEAGH | Largest freshwater lake by area in the British Isles, owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury (5,5) |
| NEAGH | Freshwater lake or lough in Northern Ireland owned by the Earl of Shaftesbury that is the largest lake by area in the British Isles (5) |
| LOCHNESS | Scotland's second-largest freshwater lake by area (4,4) |
| HIGHCLERECASTLE | Hampshire stately home owned by the Earls of Carnarvon (9,6) |
| FISHER | One of the sea areas in the British shipping forecast; or, linked with "king" for one of Britain's most colourful birds (6) |
| LOCHLOMOND | Celebrated in a folk song and forming part of the region that contains the Great Trossachs Forest, the largest freshwater lake in Scotland by surface area (4,6) |
| OKEECHOBEE | Second-largest freshwater lake wholly within the contiguous United States, in Florida at the northern edge of the Everglades (10) |
| BAIKAL | Siberian lake which is the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, Lake _ (6) |
| MISTISSINI | Cree Nation in Quebec which is home to the province's largest freshwater lake |
| OTTERBURN | Moonlit battle in 1388 in which the Scots led by the Earl of Douglas defeated the English led by brothers Harry Hotspur and Sir Ralph Percy (9) |
| COFGALILEE | Largest freshwater lake in Israel |
| SICHUAN | Second-largest province of China by area, in the south-west in the upper Yangtze River valley (7) |
| AUCHTERARDER | Town near Perth which was burnt down in 1716 by the Earl of Mar's Jacobites after the battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715 (12) |
| PINEAPPLE | The -; folly in Scotland built in 1761 by the Earl of Dunmore (9) |
| RAJASTHAN | Largest state of India by area, in the north-west on the border with Pakistan; capital, Jaipur (9) |
| PANAY | Sixth-largest island of the Philippines by area, in the western Visayas between Negros and Mindoro (5) |
| BENGAL | Bay of _, the largest bay (by area) in the world (6) |
| HURON | Manitoulin Island, the largest freshwater lake island in the world, is in which lake shared by Canada and the US? (5) |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| RHODEISLAND | The smallest state by area in the US (5,6) |
