| SHIKOKU | Smallest of the four main islands of Japan, separated from southern Honshu by the Inland Sea (7) |
| CANVEYISLAND | Area separated from southern Essex by creeks (6,6) |
| TAXONOMY | Classification as used by the Inland Revenue? (8) |
| HOKKAIDO | The northernmost of the four main islands of Japan. It is bordered by the Sea of Japan (East Sea), the Sea of Okhotsk to the north, and the Pacific Ocean. (8) |
| OKINAWA | Which of the five main islands of Japan is the smallest and least populated? (7) |
| OKAYAMA | A city in Southwest Japan, on West Honshu on the Inland Sea (7) |
| PASMORE | Victor, English abstract artist whose works include 1950's The Coast Of The Inland Sea (7) |
| INLANDSEA | Body of water separating three of the four main islands of Japan (6,3) |
| HONSHU | The largest of the four main islands of Japan. It forms a northeast-southwest arc extending about 800 miles (1,287 km) and varies greatly in width. (6) |
| KYUSHU | Southernmost and third largest of the four main islands of Japan. (6) |
| OXLEY | Which surveyor and explorer created the myth of the inland sea by reporting that the Macquarie and the Lachlan Rivers both ended in swamps and that this might mark the beginning of a sea? (5) |
| ZEALAND | Main island of Denmark, on which Roskilde is situated (7) |
| SARK | Smallest of the four main Channel Islands, where the head of the island traditionally lives at La Seigneurie (4) |
| EUROPA | Named after the mother of Minos, the smallest of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter (6) |
| ADRASTEA | Smallest of the four inner moons of Jupiter, discovered by the space probe Voyager 2 in 1979 (8) |
| AINU | What is a member of the indigenous race of the northern-most islands of Japan? (4) |
| BASSETERRE | The main island of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean; or, without the hyphen, the capital of St Kitts and Nevis (5-5) |
| COOK | Who completed the first recorded circumnavigation of the main islands of New Zealand? (4) |
| FORMENTERA | Smallest of the four main Balearic Islands (10) |
| PATHFINDER | The ___, 1840 novel by James Fenimore Cooper subtitled The Inland Sea (10) |
