| TABULAR | Name of flat-topped hills on southern edge of North York Moors - a brutal formation (7) |
| DERBY | Common name of flat race held annually on the Epsom Downs, won by Nijinsky in 1970, Shergar in 1981 |
| DOCKS | Moors a boat |
| METAMORPHOSIS | Change encountered, moors a ship awkwardly |
| TIESUP | Moors (a vessel) (4,2) |
| TOPPING | Beg Repton Priory's ruins to form this distinctive hill in the North Yorks Moors (9,7) |
| REVOLVE | Turn about car getting tailed on the southern edge of Baltimore |
| BEACONS | From "portents, signs, standards", a word for signal fires; hills on which they are lit; buoys, lighthouses or other fanals warning of danger; or, figurative sources of hope (7) |
| HARBOUR | A safe haven for ships; or, a place to veritably moor a grudge (7) |
| CHEVIOT | Sheep breed named after the hills on the Scotland-England border where they originated (7) |
| LANSING | Neighbourhood in the North York district of Toronto |
| OHIO | 'Buckeye State' of the north-eastern US, on the southern edge of Lake Erie (4) |
| IVYBRIDGE | You'll find a climbing plant growing by the side of the road as it crosses the river into this town on the southern edge of Dartmoor (9) |
| TREMADOG | "Got armed" is an anagram of this village on the southern edge of Snowdonia (8) |
| LANGDALE | Forest in the North York Moors east of Saltergate (8) |
| EGTON | ___ Bridge, picturesque village on the North York Moors near Grosmont (5) |
| ROSEBERRY | -- Topping, distinctive hill near Great Ayton in North York Moors National Park (9) |
| RIEVAULXABBEY | Ruined Cistercian monastery in the North York Moors National Park (8,5) |
| ROW | Rotten __, track on the southern edge of Hyde Park in London (3) |
| BLACKBURN | Town in Lancashire, on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley (9) |