| COTTAGES | Often thatched, cob, or hamstone, dwellings traditional to rural areas, coastal towns and fishing villages (8) |
| CORNWALL | Region of England with coastal towns and villages including Falmouth, Fowey, Mevagissey, Mousehole, Polperro and St Mawes (8) |
| LOOE | Small coastal town and fishing port in south-east Cornwall (4) |
| PIPER | Operation Pied -; evacuation in Britain of children from cities to rural areas during the Second World War (5) |
| HOWARDSTERN | Land follower, to sailors + hospital areas + coastal bird = ? |
| RONDAVELS | Circular houses, often thatched (9) |
| COUNTRY | Reckon to go by railway to rural area (7) |
| RYE | East Sussex coastal town and a Cinque Port (3) |
| BAKE | A batch or devil's dozen of 13 loaves or rolls cooked at one time, say; any one of the baps, cobs or pastries made; an all-in-one supper, roasted in a tray; or, a Scottish biscuit or floury bun (4) |
| HAZELNUT | Cob or filbert of a deciduous tree, used to flavour praline and some types of chocolate spread (8) |
| ISTRIA | Croatian peninsula on which are the coastal towns of Umag and Rabac (6) |
| SORRENTO | One of the coastal towns in Italy's Campania region famed for lemons and limoncello (8) |
| ROLL | Manoeuvre used to right a capsized canoe; a bap, barm cake, batch or cob; or, a basic drumming pattern (4) |
| FILBERT | Word for a cob or a hazelnut thought to derive from the name of the saint whose feast day coincided with the nutting season; or, a paintbrush used for oils (7) |
| SWANSONG | Final appearance of a cob or pen? It's the awful wagons north and south (4,4) |
| COXSBAZAR | Town and fishing port in Bangladesh, site of the world's longest uninterrupted natural beach (4,5) |
| WHITBY | Seaside town and fishing port (pop about 13,000, in north-east England (6) |
| HAZELNUTS | Cobs or filberts used to flavour praline, torte, muesli or chocolate spread (9) |
| ROASTBEEF | It's traditional to tear a strip off bully (5,4) |
| MISTLETOE | Plant under which it is traditional to kiss at Christmas (9) |
