| STKILDA | Situated 41 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, an archipelago evacuated in 1930 which is the remotest part of the British Isles (2,5) |
| RAVEL | In 1930, which French composer wrote Piano Concerto in D for the Left Hand for a pianist who had lost a hand? (5) |
| NORTH | Large island of the Outer Hebrides north of Benbecula (5,4) |
| UIST | Large island of the Outer Hebrides north of Benbecula (5,4) |
| MACKENZIE | Royal Marines captain who wrote more than 90 books including Whisky Galore (in which his home isle Barra in the Outer Hebrides is immortalised) and The Monarch of the Glen (9) |
| LEWISWITHHARRIS | What is one of the names for the island in the Outer Hebrides, also called the Long Island, famous f |
| KILDA | St -; Hebridean archipelago noted for bird-life whose final 36 islanders were evacuated in 1930 (5) |
| STORNOWAY | A port on the East coast of the Isle of Lewis, largest settlement in the Outer Hebrides (9) |
| HARRIS | Lewis and - - -, island in the Outer Hebrides, separated from the North West Coast of Scotland by the Minch (6) |
| ROCKALL | Uninhabited British island in the North Atlantic, 220 miles west of the Outer Hebrides |
| BARRA | Linked to Vatersay by a short causeway, the second most southerly of the inhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides (5) |
| ESCOMB | Village in County Durham on the River Wear, about 1.5 miles west of Bishop Auckland, that has one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon churches in England |
| ISLAY | Southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, approximately 16 miles west of the Kintyre peninsula (5) |
| ANDROS | Largest island of the Bahamas, an archipelago lying 25 miles west of New Providence (6) |
| CAPRICE | An island in the Med, Crete, evacuated in a whim (7) |
| TWEED | Cloth traditionally dyed and spun with the colours of nature in the Outer Hebrides, used for country |
| RENFREW | Town 6 miles west of Glasgow known as the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" |
| VERDE | Cape is a republic in the Atlantic Ocean about 300 miles west of Senegal (5) |
| HEINOUSLY | He and I sense lobby will be evacuated in an awful way (9) |
| OUTERHEBRIDES | Archipelago including Barra, the Uists and Benbecula |
