| LOCATE | Place in Somerset, a colony to the west |
| ETHEREAL | Heavenly in Somerset a" here, also (8) |
| PREDICATE | Not a subject to knock back in Somerset: a cider press (9) |
| SYDNEY | Under the enlightened governorship of Lachlan Maquarie (early 19th century), it developed from a penal colony to a thriving town (6) |
| ORCHARD | Alternative place in Somerset to find trees (7) |
| WIVELLSCOMBE | Small place in Somerset west of Taunton (12) |
| DWELLS | Lives in centre of Cheddar, place in Somerset (6) |
| GLASTONBURY | Kenny, Warren or Ali topping the bill at Greater Manchester town and place in Somerset (11) |
| WELLS | Swell place in Somerset? (5) |
| PENAL | Type of colony to avoid |
| RHODEISLAND | First colony to defy Britain, 5/4/1776 |
| ANTIDOTE | Member of colony to die horribly without this? (8) |
| CLOY | It's not on for the colony to cause a surfeit (4) |
| ROOKERY | A group of the corvids known collectively as a storytelling, nesting high in a clump of trees; or, a colony of seabirds or marine mammals such as penguins, seals or turtles (7) |
| ROOKS | Sociable birds renowned for intelligence; around 80,000 of which are thriving in a colony in the Buckenham Marshes in Norfolk (5) |
| DRONE | A male bee in a colony of social bees, whose function is to mate with the queen (5) |
| NEWLYN | Cornish seaside town in Penzance that was home in the late 19th century to a colony of artists who included Walter Langley (6) |
| HIVE | Skep or box forming an apiary for a colony of honeybees of the same name; thus, a place of great industry or busyness; or, a teeming crowd (4) |
| QUEENBEE | The female reproductive leader of a colony of honey-producing apians, essential to the life of the hive (5,3) |
| VICEROY | Governor of a colony in the name of a monarch (7) |
