| TOAMAN | Start of trouble close to Doha in country on the Arabian Peninsula and that's without exception (2,1,3) |
| EGOMANIAC | For example, country on Arabian Peninsula and CIA suspicious of self-obsessed individual (9) |
| MAAZ | Who won the Player of the Series award in the 2025 Asia Cup Rising Stars held in Doha in November 2025? (4,7) |
| SADAQAT | Who won the Player of the Series award in the 2025 Asia Cup Rising Stars held in Doha in November 2025? (4,7) |
| PICCADILLY | Policeman nabs one scoundrel causing trouble close to railway line in London (10) |
| YESMEN | Sycophants first to surface in country on the Arabian peninsula (3,3) |
| UNIVERSAL | A liver is affected by the sun and that's without exception (9) |
| OMAN | Ordinary staff in country on the Arabian peninsula (4) |
| ASIA | Home to Doha, Jakarta and Manila |
| HAVOC | Contributing to Doha vocalist's ruin (5) |
| PALENQUE | In 1839, Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens found the city of Copan. They continued on their exploration of the Yucatan Peninsula and found "The Temple of the Inscriptions" in this ruined ci |
| YEMEN | Country on the Arabian peninsula, ranked as the world's least peaceful in the 2024 Global Peace Index (5) |
| INHERENT | At this point in pub the start of trouble is to be expected (8) |
| CRIMEA | Peninsula and autonomous region in the Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov |
| ADRIATICSEA | Body of water lying north-east of the Italian Peninsula and west of the Balkan Peninsula (8,3) |
| OMANI | Inhabitant of a country on the Arabian Peninsula (5) |
| BEHIPTO | Formerly in the know about Phoebe being mixed up with start of trouble (2,3,2) |
| AQABA | The Gulf of ... is an arm of the Red Sea between the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia (5) |
| GIBRALTAR | British overseas territory near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula and a major bone of contention in Anglo-Spanish relations |
| LAPTEVSEA | Arm of the Arctic Ocean north of Russia between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands (6,3) |
