| KNIGHTON | Powys town on the Teme (*knot nigh) (8) |
| NEWTOWN | Powys town on River Severn (*nowt new!) (7) |
| SEVERN | English river whose tributaries include the Teme and the Tern (6) |
| HAYONWYE | Small Powys town famous for bookshops (3-2-3) |
| BRYNGWYN | WR Collett 'Hall' in Powys numbered 6974 (8) |
| DEWHURST | Gerard Powys _, GCR'lmproved Director' No. 507 (BR No. 62661) (8) |
| HAYWIRE | Powys town and its river are said to be disorganised |
| WELSHPOOL | Cambrian water feature in a Powys town? (9) |
| HAGIARCHY | Holy order's private teasing in Powys town |
| LUDLOW | Shropshire town on River Teme (6) |
| DOCKLOW | ___ Pools, Herefordshire fishery on Rivers Wye, Teme and Lugg (*cold wok) (7) |
| MEASE | Meandering Midlands river - part of Teme, a secret (5) |
| BUILTHWELLS | Town in Powys at the confluence of the Rivers Wye and Irfon (6,5) |
| DORSET | County that inspired Thomas Hardy to write Far from the Madding Crowd, John Fowles The French Lieutenant's Woman, T. F. Powys Mr. Weston's Good Wine and Ian McEwan On Chesil Beach (6) |
| MACHYNLLETH | The Centre of Alternative Technology is near this town in Powys |
| WYE | Hay-on-___, town in Powys (3) |
| MONTGOMERY | Town in Powys which was a county town until 1974 |
| BRECON | Market town in Powys, Wales, that gives its name to a mountain range to the south of it (6) |
| INBUILT | Being an original feature of one new town in Powys, mostly |
| TORQUEMADA | Pseudonym used by Edward Powys Mathers, inventor of the cryptic crossword |
