| LOOSEHEADPROP | Rugby player; Poole shop, dear (anag.) (5-4,4) |
| DREAMY | My dear (anag.) (6) |
| RASED | Demolished; dears (anag.) (5) |
| WATERINGPLACE | Poole or pool (8,5) |
| CANFORDCLIFFS | At the beginning of February, my son, a head chef who has a large place in Cardiff, moved to an affluent suburb of Poole (7,6) |
| SLOOP | Craft from Poole, unfinished, returned by son (5) |
| LEHAR | He composed operettas coming out of Poole Harbour (5) |
| REGAN | ___ Poole, Welsh footballer (5) |
| LEASH | In Poole, Ashley holds something keeping dogs under control (5) |
| FROME | Major Dorset chalk stream, flows into Poole Harbour (*for me) (5) |
| DIODE | Around centre of Poole made electronic semiconductor (5) |
| MALO | French port in Brittany with a ferry terminal serving Portsmouth, Weymouth and Poole (5-4) |
| SAINT | French port in Brittany with a ferry terminal serving Portsmouth, Weymouth and Poole (5-4) |
| UPTON | This leading novelist got up to much mischief while living in a town near Poole (5) |
| SEARCHPARTY | Those looking for the lost archer stay foolishly around the west end of Poole (6,5) |
| ELIJAH | Nation of Islam founder ___ Poole Muhammad |
| PROM | Concert taking place over in Wareham or Poole |
| WIMBORNE | Market town in East Dorset north of Poole (8,7) |
| OENOPHILE | In Poole he represented a port authority |
| CANDY | Brian Poole %26 The Tremeloes hit in 1964, ... Man |
