| SCHIEDAM | Port in the Netherlands noted for its gin distilleries (8) |
| ALKMAAR | City in the Netherlands noted for its cheese production and market (7) |
| DELFT | Town in the Netherlands noted for pottery, where Vermeer was born and Pieter de Hooch lived/worked (5) |
| FLUSHING | Port in the Netherlands at the mouth of the West Scheldt river which is also called Vlissingen (8) |
| GRONINGEN | University city in the northeast Netherlands noted for the Martinikerk (9) |
| HOOKOFHOLLAND | Coastal town in the southwest of the Netherlands noted as a ferry port (4,2,7) |
| HOOK | -- of Holland, cape and port in the Netherlands (4) |
| ROTTERDAM | - - - (Or Anywhere), Beautiful South song inspired by a port in the Netherlands (9) |
| KEITH | Small town in the Moray council area of Scotland with three distilleries, including Strathisla Distillery, one of the oldest in the Highlands |
| SPEY | River in the Scottish Highland noted for salmon fishing and whisky distilleries (4) |
| DORDRECHT | Port in the Netherlands (9) |
| ISLAY | With nine working distilleries, the "Queen of the Hebrides" on the whisky coast of west Scotland (5) |
| BRUICHLADDICH | Located in Port Charlotte, one of Islay's nine distilleries |
| ROTHES | Small town in Moray, the site of four distilleries (6) |
| INDIGESTIBLE | Edible? It's gin, stupid -- it can't be eaten! (12) |
| GIN | Alcoholic spirit that has surged in popularity and yielded many new distilleries in NZ (3) |
| TILL | Cultivate the land inside some distilleries (4) |
| RETURNS | They answer answers in distilleries (7) |
| STRATHSPEY | Area of Scotland with a high concentration of single malt distilleries |
| NINTH | Sadly don't finish knit, like Ardnahoe among Islay distilleries (5,2,3,4) |
