| LAMPS | Left out the maps and the lights (5) |
| DAMPS | Checks out the maps the day before (5) |
| GREENE | Author of 26 novels including Brighton Rock and Travels with My Aunt as well as the travel book Journey Without Maps and the play The Potting Shed (6) |
| WILSON | Sir Angus -, author of The Old Men at the Zoo and short story collections including A Bit Off the Map and Such Darling Dodos (6) |
| NEWZEALAND | Anecdotally, the country most often omitted from maps, and the location of answers to asterisked clues (3,7) |
| ENE | Right on the map and up a bit, usually |
| ROUND | Shape of a circle, ring or traditional slice of bread; or, one in a circuit of drinks bought in a pub before time is called at the bar and the lights go dead (5) |
| PAYER | One of those in the cast left out - the one sorting out Bill (5) |
| TITHE | In the past, it left out the heading (5) |
| DUNCE | Dead relative left out, the fool (5) |
| CHIDE | Kid left out the last rebuke! (5) |
| TITLE | A little confused, left out the name (5) |
| ANTON | Eric left out the container for him (5) |
| AMBER | Left out the broken marble: yellow (5) |
| LILIT | The Lady Mary in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (5,6) |
| LEWIS | Henry VIII in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (6,5) |
| ATLAS | Mountains featured in the maps (5) |
| OBAMA | Michelle who wrote "Becoming" and "The Light We Carry" |
| MANTEL | Author of A Change of Climate and An Experiment in Love as well as the Cromwell trilogy comprising Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light (6) |
| DANCINGQUEEN | "Friday night and the lights are low" is a line from which 70s song? (7,5) |
