| SECTION | Part of Essex city I found oddly deserted (7) |
| DERIGUEUR | Rude urge I found oddly necessary |
| KABUL | Capital, Kuala Lumpur, possessing oddly deserted harbour (5) |
| TILBURY | Linked with London and Southend on a railway that now operates as part of Essex Thameside franchise (7) |
| NARRATE | Give an account of unfair trial found oddly deficient by the Maori (7) |
| WICHITA | Kansas City, I note, in Washington (7) |
| NOURISH | Around old city I eat further (7). |
| ABILENE | The Texas city I enable in some way (7) |
| TOURISM | In French city, I originally maligned travel industry (7) |
| TANAGER | Bird found in a boring Moroccan city I dispatched |
| SLUMBER | Timber from the heart of Essex could make you doze (7) |
| EROTICS | Sensualists, kinky trio in a London area, heart of Essex (7) |
| EXPLAIN | Justify borders of Essex even (7) |
| SAFFRONWALDEN | Appeal forces landowner to regenerate part of Essex (7,6) |
| PERSPEX | One can see right through this agent turning up to empty shop on the outskirts of Essex |
| ANGLIA | East ---, region of England consisting of Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Essex and Cambridgeshire (6) |
| EASTANGLIA | Norfolk, Suffolk, part of Essex and Cambridgeshire (4,6) |
| ONGAR | Some prolong argument in part of Essex (5) |
| VAMP | Seductive woman found oddly via a map (4) |
| SNAIL | Garden pest found oddly enough in Suntan Isle (5) |
