| MOREAU | Mad scientist character, created by H.G. Wells, who resides on an island in the Pacific Ocean (6) |
| KRYTEN | Android who resides on Red Dwarf (6) |
| WEST | Herbert --, character created by H.P. Lovecraft (4) |
| EVILGENIUS | Villainous scientist character, maybe |
| OWEN | Michael _, ex-Man U striker whose daughter currently resides on Love Island (4) |
| RESIDENCY | Reside on cape in city hospital post (9) |
| LIVEDIN | Reside on row that's homely (5-2) |
| DWELL | Reside on a top drawer watering hole |
| GOLLUM | Skinny creature living on an island in the middle of an underground lake in The Hobbit--- (6) |
| RULERS | Name given to the contestants who reside in the luxury penthouse in Rise And Fall (6) |
| LARKIN | Author of poetry collections including The Less Deceived, The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows; or, the name of a rural family created by H. E. Bates (6) |
| ABADAN | Port in SW Iran on an island in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway (6) |
| CRUSOE | Robinson, character shipwrecked on an island in a novel by Daniel Defoe (6) |
| CASTLE | 14th-century stronghold on an island in the River Dee west of Castle Douglas, Dumfries and Galloway (7,6) |
| ECCLES | Doggy who resides with the Barlow family in Weatherfield (6) |
| TAHITI | A strike in odd parts of this island in the Pacific Ocean (6) |
| BIKINI | One of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific: site of a U.S. atom bomb test in 1946 (6) |
| BORNEO | Island in the Pacific that houses the sultanate of Brunei (6) |
| LADYDI | Canine princess who resides at the Queen Vic (4,2) |
| EASTER | --- Island in the Pacific is noted for its gigantic stone figures (6) |
