| GRIMSBY | Port town in northeast Lincolnshire noted once for its large fishing fleet (7) |
| OSTEND | Seaport in north-west Belgium (pop about 70,000), once with a large fishing fleet ((6) |
| BELPER | Market town in Derbyshire noted once for nailmaking (6) |
| RECORDED | As noted, once more, the house on the road has keys (8) |
| SPALDING | Market town in Lincolnshire noted for its annual Flower Festival |
| MARKETRASEN | Town in Lincolnshire noted for its National Hunt racecourse (6,5) |
| SWINDON | Large town in northeast Wiltshire (7) |
| KILKEEL | Which town is home to Northern Ireland's biggest fishing fleet? (7) |
| TILBURY | Port town in Essex in which Queen Elizabeth I addressed her troops in 1588, giving a famous speech (7) |
| HARWICH | Port town in Essex, departure point for ferries to Holland (7) |
| IPSWICH | Port town in Suffolk, home to Thomas Gainsborough for some 15 years, where he painted subjects from butterfly chases and local gentry to parks, ponds, streams and weirs (7) |
| EXMOUTH | Port town in Devon that was the birthplace of Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart (7) |
| ESBJERG | Large fishing port of Denmark, on the North Sea coast of west Jutland (7) |
| WREXHAM | Town in northeast Wales |
| ADMIRAL | Senior commander of a navy; master of a fishing fleet; or, either of two butterflies, red or white (7) |
| ANDOVER | Article on port, town in Hampshire (7) |
| WINDSOR | Snakes inside of port town in Ontario (7) |
| PELICAN | Long-billed water bird known for its large throat pouch, which is brightly coloured in spring (7) |
| OSPREYS | Large fishing birds (7) |
| TRAWLER | Large fishing boat (7) |
