| THEVALLEYS | Local or informal name of a region of South Wales that was once at the heart of the Welsh coal mining industry (3,7) |
| BATHURST | City in New South Wales that was the scene of a gold rush in 1851 (8) |
| USK | River of south Wales that flows into the Bristol Channel |
| RHONDDA | Former coal-mining region of South Wales (7) |
| MERC | A short or informal name of a car symbolised by a three-pointed star; or, a soldier of fortune (4) |
| ASANTE | One of the names of a region in Ghana (formerly Gold Coast), capital Kumasi (6) |
| INVADER | Norman was once at odds with Harold |
| TRINI | Short or informal name of the island twinned with Tobago (5) |
| GREENMAN | Annual music and arts festival held in Wales that was founded in 2003 (5,3) |
| GREEN | Richard Llewellyn's novel about Welsh coal miners, How ... Was My Valley |
| HOWGREENWAS | Richard Llewellyn's novel of Welsh coal miners, ... My Valley (3,5,3) |
| CASTLES | Old or informal name for rooks in chess; or, a general name for fortresses such as those constructed in Wales under the direction of Edward I (7) |
| WESTIE | Informal name of a small breed of white dog developed in the Highlands from the Cairn terrier (6) |
| GARREG | Village location of the Brondanw estate of Clough Williams-Ellis, or part of the Welsh folk song "Dafydd, Y ... Wen or David of the White Rock" (6) |
| TAWE | River in South Wales that flows from the western Brecon Beacons to the Bristol Channel at Swansea |
| MESOPOTAMIA | A region of south-west Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (11) |
| OSSETS | Native or inhabitant of a region of the Caucasus Mountains which is divided by the boundary between |
| SCOTTIE | Informal name of a breed of terrier immortalised as a Monopoly token (7) |
| BRECON | Market town in Powys, Wales, that gives its name to a mountain range to the south of it (6) |
| CRAVEN | ___ Arms, station at the junction of the Welsh Marches and Heart of Wales lines (6) |
