| GREENISLANDCOVE | Newfoundland settlement on the Great northern Peninsula: 3 wds. |
| BEARCOVE | newfoundland... Village on the Great northern Peninsula: 2 wds. |
| BALAKLAVA | Settlement on the Crimean Peninsula within the city of Sevastopol (9) |
| SWEDEN | Country that lost its supremacy as a superpower in the Baltic region to Peter the Great's Russia following disastrous participation in the Great Northern War (6) |
| STANLEY | The capital and largest settlement on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic (7) |
| BALBOA | Explorer who founded the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas (in present day Panama) |
| LAUGHOUTOFCOURT | Dismiss with contempt twitter with settlement on the steps (5,3,2,5) |
| GOOSEGREEN | The second largest settlement on the Falkland Islands |
| KILRONAN | Which is the largest settlement on the Aran Islands? (8) |
| OKHOTSK | The first Russian settlement on the Pacific Coast, established in 1643 (7) |
| THOMAS | Engineer who built thousands of miles of railway in the 19th century - including the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway and the Great Northern (6, 7) |
| BRASSEY | Engineer who built thousands of miles of railway in the 19th century - including the Lancaster & Carlisle Railway and the Great Northern (6, 7) |
| LOON | Bird such as the common ___ also called the Great Northern diver (4) |
| KARAMEA | Most northerly settlement on the West Coast (7) |
| GRANTOWN | Pensioner's settlement on the 23Ac (8) |
| BROADFORD | Second-largest settlement on the Isle of Skye (9) |
| READING | Dig near fragments in settlement on the Thames (7) |
| NYSTAD | Swedish town that gave its name to the last peace treaty of the Great Northern War of 1700?1721 |
| GROWN | Having risen to be a big noise in the Great Northern (5) |
| IVATT | Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway 1896-1911 (5,5) |
