| GLENCOE | The Three Sisters are ridges on the southern side of this Scottish valley |
| BIDEANNAMBIAN | Glen Coe's Three Sisters are ridges of this mountain |
| LEFTBANK | District of Paris, on the southern side of the River Seine (4,4) |
| ESTONIA | Country on the southern side of the Gulf of Finland (7) |
| HAMELIN | The Pied Piper came to this German city where, Browning relates, 'The river Weser, deep and wide; Washes its wall on the southern side' |
| MILLWALL | District on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs (8) |
| FRET | The true-lover's knot of heraldry; a sea fog or haar; or, one of a series of metal strips or ridges on the fingerboard of a guitar (4) |
| CAPRICORN | Sign of crop on southern side of island |
| WESER | This river, deep and wide, washes the wall of Hamelin on its southern side in Browning's account of the Pied Piper |
| GLENROTHES | The "Giant Irises" at the Leslie Roundabout are a notable feature of this Scottish town |
| FRETS | Wooden or metal ridges on the neck of a guitar (5) |
| LONGARMOFTHELAW | One should stay on the right side of this limb |
| REP | Abbr. aptly on the right side of this grid |
| DEM | Abbr. aptly on the left side of this grid |
| KNURLS | Ridges on the edge of a quarter |
| UTAH | State shaped like two sets of black squares on the sides of this grid |
| SWALLOWING | Foolishly believing southern side of house down |
| LINUS | Comics character who said "Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life" |
| TELFORD | Perhaps the greatest achievement of this Scottish civil engineer was the Menai Suspension Bridge, completed in 1826 (7) |
| MIDLOTHIAN | Dalkeith is the administrative centre of this Scottish unitary authority (10) |