| CAVALRYMAN | Virginia in California on railway with fellow trooper (10) |
| SCHOLARLY | Academic thus tours chief city of California on railway |
| SECRETAGENT | Administrator leaving railway with fellow operative (6,5) |
| DECLINE | Writer's month on railway with 23 (7) |
| CAM | Irregular shaft found in California on Monday (3) |
| EVERLY | All (including novice) take the rest on railway with close harmony duo (6,8) |
| BROTHERS | All (including novice) take the rest on railway with close harmony duo (6,8) |
| SANDIEGO | Port city in California, on the Pacific Ocean, adjacent to the Mexico-us border (3,5) |
| LOSANGELES | City in S.W. California on the Pacific (3,7) |
| LLANGOLLEN | Heritage railway with stations at Carrog and Corwen (10) |
| POCAHONTAS | Member of the Powhatan people who was captured by English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia in 1613 (10) |
| ROBERTELEE | A commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War (6,1,3) |
| FREMONT | A city in west California, on San Francisco Bay (7) |
| CONAKRY | Capital to blow on a railway with a heart (7) |
| ACRYLIC | Bill by railway with no end of parasites on fibre (7) |
| JANISSARY | Girl is on state railway with a Turkish soldier (9) |
| BLUE | Like California on most election maps |
| CANBERRA | City specially planned for California on barren ground (8) |
| BOSS | Robert California, on "The Office," e.g. |
| BLUESTATE | New York or California, on an electoral map |
