| ABJECT | Of the most contemptible kind (6) |
| BASSIST | Rumoured to be the most contemptible member of the band |
| BASEST | Most contemptible (6) |
| LOWEST | Most contemptible |
| MEANEST | Most contemptible |
| LECHEROUS | Most contemptible person consuming ecstasy with songstress is lewd (9) |
| OLDEST | The trail is located in the Appalachian Mountains, which are among the ___ mountains on Earth and that consist of some of the most ancient crystalline rocks known (6) |
| GAWAIN | One of the most famous of the knights of the Arthurian Romances (6) |
| VASARI | Italian painter and architect whose Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects laid the foundation for the study of art history (6) |
| DELPHI | An ancient Greek city on the Southern slopes of Mount Parnassus, site of the most famous oracle of Apollo (6) |
| TAYLOR | Last name for the percussionist in Queen, a British rock band known for fusing heavy metal, glam rock, and camp theatrics to make it one of the most popular groups of the 1970s. (6) |
| ORKNEY | Skara Brae is an underground village on the west coast of Mainland island in this Scottish island group. It is one of the most complete European relics of the late Neolithic Period; this location and |
| EASTER | - Island; World Heritage Site in the South Pacific noted for its monolithic stone moai; one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world (6) |
| APOGEE | Name of the most distant point of an orbit from the earth (6) |
| LETHAL | The title of the most recent series of BBC detective drama Strike, starring Tom Burke (6,5) |
| MONYOE | One of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s (7,6) |
| SEWELL | Novelist whose classic account of Black Beauty, Captain, Ginger, Merrylegs and others is one of the most popular animal tales of all time (6) |
| OSPREY | Bird of prey that used to be common in Mallorca but is now one of the most endangered species in Spain, a resident bird it can still be seen on the island (6) |
| NICEST | Cent is change of the most exact kind (6) |
| WISEST | Is in the direction of the most sound (6) |
