| ABBOTSBURY | Village in Dorset with a swannery (10) |
| SHERBORNE | Market town in Dorset with a Tudor mansion built by Sir Walter Raleigh next to the ruins of a 12th-century castle (9) |
| POOLE | English port and resort in Dorset with a large natural harbour (5) |
| PORTLAND | - Bill; promontory in Dorset with a lighthouse of the same name (8) |
| CHURCH | Broad-; drama set in Dorset with David Tennant and Olivia Colman (6) |
| 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 |
| USEDCARS | Manipulate Washington from area near central Dorset with those outside garage (4,4) |
| DAWNFRENCH | In 1982, Five Go Mad in Dorset launched this comedian's TV career |
| CERNEGIANT | Ancient naked figure about 180 feet high carved into a chalk hillside in Dorset (5,5) |
| DURDLEDOOR | Alliterative ancient arch in Dorset (6,4) |
| DEERFOREST | Where the animals are free to roam in Dorset, perhaps (4,6) |
| CLOUDSHILL | T. E. Lawrence's rural retreat on the Moreton Estate in Dorset that was gifted to the National Trust by his brother (6,4) |
| PENINSULA | With UK examples including the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, the Lizard in Cornwall and Low Furness in Cumbria, a near-island extending from a mainland (9) |
| STEVEDORE | A girl in Dorset going out with a docker (9) |
| ABATES | Going up in Dorset, a balloonist has a fall (6) |
| STORED | Held in a warehouse in Dorset? Wrong! (6) |
