| HUNTINGDON | Town in the administrative county of Cambridgeshire on the River Great Ouse (10) |
| EEL | A catadromous snig which is glass-like during its stage as an elver and formerly prevalent in a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (3) |
| BEDFORD | A market town in south-east central England, on the River Great Ouse (7) |
| NAR | River that is a tributary of the River Great Ouse (3) |
| EASTANGLIA | English peninsula consisting of Norfolk, Suffolk and parts of Cambridgeshire and Essex (4,6) |
| ELY | Cathedral city in Cambridgeshire on the River Ouse (3) |
| ASHFORD | Town in Kent that lies on the River Great Stour (7) |
| PETERBOROUGH | Cathedral city in Cambridgeshire on the River Nene (12) |
| OUST | The River Great ... is one of the longest rivers in the UK (4) |
| KINGSLYNN | Market town in Norfolk on the estuary of the Great Ouse near the Wash (5,4) |
| LARK | Suffolk river, Great Ouse tributary - and songbird (4) |
| AYRSHIRE | Former administrative county of SW Scotland whose towns included Dalry and Beith |
| SOKE | The ____ of Peterborough, formerly in Northamptonshire, was a separate administrative county, 1888-1965 |
| STNEOTS | Town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire (2,5) |
| CAM | River that flows into the Great Ouse to the south of Ely at Pope's Corner |
| OFFICEBLOCKS | Department obstructs those providing jobs in the administrative sector (6,6) |
| ISLEOFELY | Historic part of Cambridgeshire that was only accessible by boat until the waterlogged Fens were drained in the 17th century (4,2,3) |
| CHOOSE | Select house of enormous dimensions in borders of Cambridgeshire (6) |
| HEAD | Top in the administrative department (4) |
| FASTEN | Secure area by street in part of Cambridgeshire (6) |
