| SKARABRAE | Neolithic settlement on Mainland in Orkney (5,4) |
| LERWICK | Fishing town on Mainland in the Shetland Isles, Scotland (7) |
| COLONISED | Established settlement on island to the east, in unfriendly surroundings (9) |
| NORTHUIST | Scottish island, ___ ___, off the NW coast of the mainland - in truth, so unusual (5, 4) |
| LONDINIUM | Roman settlement on Thames (9) |
| BALAKLAVA | Settlement on the Crimean Peninsula within the city of Sevastopol (9) |
| BROADFORD | Second-largest settlement on the Isle of Skye (9) |
| EDINBURGH | ___ of the Seven Seas, the optimistically named main settlement on Tristan da Cunha (9) |
| ADAMSTOWN | The only settlement on, and as such, the capital of, the Pitcairn Islands |
| SCRABSTER | Small settlement on Thurso Bay, Caithness, NE Scotland, associated with the fishing industry |
| KITCHENER | Memorial on Marwick Head in Orkney (9) |
| SCAPAFLOW | Wartime naval base in Orkney (5,4) |
| SHAPINSAY | A great deal of moulding, for example, in Orkney (9) |
| BRAE | Skara ___, Neolithic settlement in Scotland (4) |
| ATTICA | Region at the eastern end of the mainland in ancient Greece |
| BRETON | The only Celtic language spoken on mainland Europe |
| BRONX | Borough on mainland of New York City (5) |
| KIRKWALL | A town on Mainland (8) |
| SKYE | Scottish isle connected by road bridge to the mainland in the 1990s |
| BARENTSSEA | Body of water between Svalbard and the Russia mainland in the Arctic Ocean (7,3) |
