| DYLANTHOMAS | This extraordinarily old man has places in the middle of Coryton and just west of Tenby -- he's a well-known Welsh poet (5,6) |
| TIRO | If three people switch places in the middle, one is a novice (4) |
| HOLT | This extraordinarily large hotel opened on 6th August -- it's near Ferndown (4) |
| HESITANT | Timid man has place taken by soldier |
| YOUTHHOSTELS | Rocky Tuohy has places to stay around the heart of Essex where The Young Tourists are given residencies (5,7) |
| TOILETS | Up-and-coming poet, after initial reversal, has places to go (7) |
| HOLLY | Once used by boys and men of Tenby, Wales, to whip unsuspecting girls on Boxing Day in a courting ritual of "holming", a plant with prickly leaves evocative of Christ's crown of thorns at the Crucifix |
| PEMBROKESHIRE | Welsh county where the Cardigan corgi's relative was first bred and where arty siblings Augustus and Gwen John were born, in the towns of Tenby and Haverfordwest respectively (13) |
| YVETTE | This lady is a highly trained vet who has a practice right on the outskirts of Tenby (6) |
| PEMBO | Abbreviated name of a county that gave its name to a breed of Corgi, where Tenby and Marloes form part of one of the three Welsh national parks (5) |
| ABATTOIR | I'm taking a boar and three of my chickens off to a place in the middle of Tatton -- it's a slaughterhouse (8) |
| LYNXES | Yes, this leading naturalist has a large, ramshackle place in the middle of Wrexham, where he keeps tufted-eared cats (6) |
| ESPOO | Second-largest city of Finland, in the south just west of Helsinki (5) |
| NEWARK | Largest city of New Jersey, on the Passaic River just west of New York City (6) |
| KANANASKIS | ___ Country (Nicknamed K-country, this scenic recreation area in Alberta is just west of Calgary) |
| INADEN | Involved in a study of a place in the Middle East (2,4) |
| TROUBLESPOT | In sum, Russian money and power gets a place in the Middle East? (7,4) |
| OSLO | Having left my old, small place in the middle of Exmouth, I relocated to a European capital city (4) |
| DARLING | Beloved refuge; a recreational precinct just west of the CBD (7,7) |
| HARBOUR | Beloved refuge; a recreational precinct just west of the CBD (7,7) |
