| ABBOTSBURY | Village in Dorset associated with a nearby swannery (10) |
| WOOKEYHOLE | Village near Wells, Somerset, noted for a nearby limestone cave (6,4) |
| QUEBECCITY | French-speaking metropolis that looked at bidding for 2022 and is considering a bid for 2030; it's cold enough but doesn't have a nearby mountain high enough for the Games' downhill events |
| SALMONHATS | Head decorations worn by orcas that may indicate a nearby abundance of fish |
| CASSINO | Town with a nearby abbey in Italy’s Lazio region, almost destroyed in the Second World War |
| MINOT | North Dakota city with a nearby Air Force base |
| HAWTHORNS | The ___, Birmingham station sharing its name with a nearby football ground (9) |
| LOSSIEMOUTH | Moray coastal town with a nearby RAF base (11) |
| GOOBIES | Newfoundland... Irving Oil Big Stop Restaurant town on the Trans-canada Highway with a nearby Moose statue named Morris |
| LONGBREDY | We need to find a lodger by the beginning of November, when we are moving to a village in Dorset (4,5) |
| ABBAS | Village in Dorset, England above which a famous chalk giant is carved out of the hillside (5,5) |
| CERNE | Village in Dorset, England above which a famous chalk giant is carved out of the hillside (5,5) |
| EYPE | Coastal village in Dorset, south of Symondsbury (4) |
| ARNE | Village in Dorset |
| HIS | What a flat "b" palm facing a nearby fellow stands for, in A.S.L. |
| PENGUIN | In 2012, a bird of this type escaped Tokyo's Sea Life Park; he was found 82 days later, living happily on a nearby riverbank |
| OLDMALDEN | Village near Kingston upon Thames, renamed when a nearby suburb was created by the arrival of a railway |
| CORSET | Stays in Cornwall init-ial-ly, heading away from a nearby county (6) |
| LOCALCALL | What one who drops in at a nearby pub makes? (5,4) |
| LOCAL | In a nearby location (5) |
