| TOPEND | Operation handled by nurse somewhere in the Northern Territory (3,3) |
| DROPSHOT | Dink's operations handled by doctor in demand (4-4) |
| NEUROSES | Overseas drug, handled by nurse, disguised brain disorders (8) |
| TAILEND | Back trouble handled by nurse (4,3) |
| EVENTS | Eve's in the Northern Territory for the happenings to be held there (6) |
| FATTEN | It's fate in the Northern Territory for the cattle, to feed them up for their demise |
| LATENT | Dead in the Northern Territory but hidden (6) |
| MENTOR | Rome in the Northern Territory? You need a wise counsellor! (6) |
| AGENTS | Seen as representatives in the Northern Territory a long time now (6) |
| GENTRY | You'll find a well-bred grey in the Northern Territory (6) |
| ARNHEM | Wilderness region in the Northern Territory, ... Land (6) |
| REPENT | The peer goes to the Northern Territory in order to change from his evil ways |
| MOMENT | The instant you get a strange memo from the Northern Territory ... (6) |
| DARWIN | Capital of the Northern Territory in Australia (6) |
| DECENT | Cede perhaps on the Northern Territory border. It's the proper thing to do (6) |
| EVENT | Happening in the Northern Territory on the day before (5) |
| TEXAN | Kind of axe used in the Northern Territory by an American (5) |
| ALICESPRINGS | Town in Central Australia, in the Northern Territory, midway between Adelaide and Darwin (5,7) |
| AYERS | ___ Rock, monolith in the Northern Territory of Australia (5) |
| ELEMENT | It's essential to have a melee in the Northern Territory (7) |
