| EXMOOR | National Park in southwest England immortalised in R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone (6) |
| DARTMOOR | National park in southwest England covering 954 sq km (8) |
| PENNYLANE | Street in Liverpool, England, immortalised by The Beatles (5,4) |
| DOONE | Clan to which Lorna belongs in R.D. Blackmore's historical novel (5) |
| EXMOSR | Region in which Richard Doddridge Blackmore's Lorna Doone is set (6) |
| EXETER | Cathedral city and county town in southwest England (pop about 130,000) (6) |
| DORSET | County in southwest England (6) |
| SEVERN | ___ Estuary, wading-bird hotspot in southwest England (6) |
| MESAVERDE | National Park in southwest Colorado noted for its cliff dwellings (4,5) |
| LORNA | and 51ac, Eponymous heroine of R D Blackmore's novel subtitled A Romance of Exmoor |
| BIGBEND | National park in southwest Texas |
| ZION | National park in southwest Utah |
| CRATERLAKE | National park in SW Oregon |
| SLUNG | Like 23, hero lying in vessel in southwest England stirring? (5,6,3,5,4) |
| CORNISHHENNA | Hair dye produced in a county in southwest England? |
| DEANE | Taunton ___ (city in southwest England) [51.01 N, 3.06 W] |
| CORNICHE | Road on Riviera or in southwest England, as they say? (8) |
| GLOUCESTER | Cathedral city in Southwest England on the River Severn (10) |
| AVON | River in southwest England spanned by the Clifton Suspension Bridge (4) |
| BRISTOL | Port city in southwest England, on the River Avon (7) |
