| TENACITY | Score equally split between Liverpool and Sunderland? That shows doggedness |
| PERSIST | Show doggedness |
| TIE | Bow, perhaps, may score equally (3) |
| NOMANISANISLAND | Q: "Should you call that stopover between Liverpool and Belfast a peninsula?" A: "___" |
| CROSSING | Note to disguise Ringo catching ship between Liverpool and Dublin (8) |
| TUNNEL | Route between Liverpool and the Wirral (6,6) |
| MERSEY | Route between Liverpool and the Wirral (6,6) |
| SHIPCANAL | Cutter cut between Liverpool and Manchester? (4,5) |
| THATTO | _ Heath, station between Liverpool and St Helens (6) |
| WIRRAL | Peninsula between Liverpool and North Wales (6) |
| IRISHSEA | Water between Liverpool and Dublin |
| BABB | Phil ...., Bradford City, Liverpool and Sunderland defender (4) |
| BOUDEWIJNZENDEN | Dutch footballer whose clubs included Chelsea, Middlesbrough, Liverpool and Sunderland |
| COATES | Sebastian ..., former Uruguay defender whose sides included Liverpool and Sunderland (6) |
| BISECT | Bishop leading one religious group that's equally split |
| AVON | County that was scrapped and split between Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (4) |
| TRISECT | We're told to consider religious faction equally split |
| ALFALFA | Crop Cockney's equally split with another adult (7) |
| IDAHO | State that's split between the Pacific and Mountain time zones |
| DOWNTHEMIDDLE | Equally split here (4,3,6) |
