| SHETLANDWOOL | Product of the Isles - and those lowland folds? |
| SLEEVE | I leave the isle and Adam's wife takes cover (6) |
| ANISLANDPARISH | British television documentary covering the lives of residents of the Church of England parish of the Isles of Scilly (2,6,6) |
| ULVA | "Wolf Island" off the west coast of Mull that inspired Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lord of the Isles (4) |
| STMARYS | The largest of the Isles of Scilly |
| STAGNES | Virgin martyr and one of the Isles of Scilly (2,5) |
| TRESCO | The second-largest of the Isles of Scilly |
| DUCHY | - of Cornwall; private estate established by Edward III in 1337 that includes most of the Isles of S |
| MCDONALD | One of the largest Scottish Highland clans, historically known as Lords of the Isles (8) |
| BENNEVIS | Munro in the Grampians which is the highest mountain in the British Isles and one of the ascents for |
| CATHEDRAL | ---- of the Isles, building in Mill port (9) |
| GREATCUMBRAE | Scotland's Cathedral of the Isles location (5,7) |
| OBAN | Port in Scott's "Lord of the Isles" |
| SODOR | Another name for Kingdom of the Isles, which included Hebrides (5) |
| ROADTUNNELS | What have proposals been put forward about for linking parts of the Western Isles and linking Mull to the mainland? (4,7) |
| LANDSEND | 28 miles from the Isles of Scilly, the most-westerly point of Cornwall and England which is the start point of an iconic 874-mile bike ride to John o'Groats (5,3) |
| INCREASING | Getting bigger by the addition of folds? (10) |
| DECREASED | Reduced the number of folds? (9) |
| MENHIR | Megalithic monument, often carved, erected by prehistoric people in the British Isles and parts of western Europe (6) |
| DECREASE | Make smaller by removing the folds? (8) |
