| CHILTERNS | Range of chalk hills which includes the Dunstable Downs |
| CHILTERN | ___ Hills, range of chalk hills in southern England that includes the Chess Valley (8) |
| WOLDS | The ___, range of chalk hills (5) |
| SOUTHDOWNS | A range of chalk hills that extends from the Itchen Valley in Hampshire to Beachy Head in East Sussex |
| DOWNS | Name given to two ranges of chalk hills in SE England (5) |
| ADAMS | Author of a tale of rabbits' survival which he set around the chalk hills of Watership Down (5) |
| MAGOG | Gog ___ Downs, range of low chalk hills south east of Cambridge |
| ISTANBUL | Where one finds change at the centre of Dunstable (8) |
| NEEDLES | The ___, group of chalk stacks in the English Channel off the coast of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| STREAMS | Freshwater habitats such as the spring-fed winterbournes originating from chalk hills (7) |
| MODERATE | Check motorway speed traps round outskirts of Dunstable (8) |
| THENEEDLES | Group of chalk stacks in the sea off the western tip of the Isle of Wight (3,7) |
| NORTHDOWNS | Point to blue, small, chalk hills (5,5) |
| THEDOWNS | Chalk hills from Surrey to Kent, and from Hants to Sussex (3,5) |
| ABBAS | Cerne -; Dorset village near a chalk hill figure of a naked giant (5) |
| DERISIVE | Scornful vergers in Dunstable finish session without Latin cardinal |
| LAD | Youth leaders in Luton and Dunstable |
| LEAVEBE | Avoid entering Dunstable Ave, Bedford |
| WEARSEVERALHATS | Be in Dunstable, Derby etc and do multiple roles (4,7,4) |
| SULTAN | Dunstable, sadly, has no bed for Muslim ruler (8) |