| SARK | Smallest of the Channel Islands . Ceased to float (4) |
| HERM | The smallest of the Channel Islands that is open to the public |
| LOST | Ceased to have failed to win |
| EASE | Ceased to show such comfort (4) |
| DIED | Ceased to exist, having performed in the east |
| USSR | Country that ceased to be in December 1991 (4) |
| WOKE | Ceased to sleep (4) |
| BONN | It ceased to be a European capital in 1991 |
| DEAD | Deceased, passed on, ceased to be |
| BAILIWICK | Term applied to the administrative grouping of the Crown Dependencies of the Channel Islands (9) |
| SANTACATALINA | One of the Channel Islands off the California coast; home to the city of Avalon (5,8) |
| JERSEY | Traditional style of knitted sweater; a shirt for certain sports; the largest of the Channel Islands; or, a breed of cow (6) |
| ALDERNEY | The closest of the Channel Islands to the UK and France, chief town St Anne (8) |
| GUILDER | Former unit of currency of the Netherlands which ceased to be legal tender in 2002 (7) |
| OVERTHECOUNTER | Ceased to have a crush on the pollster without the doctor's say-so (4,3,7) |
| AREACODES | Road ceased to be in the postal districts (4,5) |
| PAUSED | To have ceased to be in force, is to have done what (6) |
| GUERNSEY | With the capital St Peter Port, one of the Channel Islands after which a breed of dairy cattle and a sweater take their names (8) |
| GUERNSEYLILY | Plant with Large heads of pink flowers named after one of the Channel Islands (8,4) |
| JERSEYSHAW | Irish playwright when he's on the largest of the Channel Islands? |
