| NORTHWALES | Region in which the county of Gwynedd is found (5,5) |
| CONNAUGHT | Irish province in which the county of Galway is found (variant spelling) (9) |
| SNOWDONIA | Mountainous area predominantly in the Welsh county of Gwynedd (9) |
| IDRIS | Giant in Welsh mythology after whom a mountain in Gwynedd is named |
| RIDINGS | Divisions into which the county of Yorkshire was formerly split (7) |
| FFESTINIOG | Area of Gwynedd that includes the Welsh "slate city" or "town that roofed the world", whose heritage railway stretches through the scenic landscape of Eryri, or Snowdonia (10) |
| CAERNARFON | Administrative centre of Gwynedd whose Anglicised spelling was superseded in 1974 (10) |
| ELGINSHIRE | Former name of the county of Moray (10) |
| EASTANGLIA | Region in which eating alas is terrible (4,6) |
| SALERNO | Province in the Italian Campania region in which the Amalfi Coast is situated (7) |
| PLAYGROUND | Popular holiday region in which to act crushed (10) |
| GORGES | Yangtze River region in which the notoriously large dam was finished in 2006, the Three ... |
| IONIA | Ancient region in which the city of Ephesus was located |
| TIBET | Disputed region in which the Potala Palace is situated |
| TUNDRA | A vast, flat, treeless Arctic region in which the subsoil is permanently frozen (6) |
| LAMANCHA | Spanish region in which the story of Don Quixote takes place (2,6) |
| PORTHMADOG | Coastal town in Gwynedd (10) |
| CAERNARFONSHIRE | Former county of NW Wales, now part of Gwynedd (15) |
| DEBATABLELANDS | Historic disputed region in which the Border reivers operated (9,5) |
| OWAIN | ___ap Gruffydd, king of Gwynedd, north Wales, until his death in 1170 (5) |
