| FRONTPAGE | Where the major headlines are |
| TIBET | Region where the major dam is being built on the Brahmaputra river in southeastern China. (5) |
| NEWSROOM | Inexperienced anchors put back where headlines are made |
| INCAPS | How many headlines are printed |
| CAPITALLETTER | Piece of a major headline |
| FRONTPAGENEWS | Major headline material (...letters 3-10) |
| ENCELADUS | The second nearest of the major regular moons of Saturn, the brightest of all its moons, and discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. The surface is almost pure water ice, with t |
| HAERHPIN | What is one of the Romanised names of the major trade and communications city of central Manchuria, the capital of Heilongjiang, and located on the south bank of the Sungari River? (2-3-3) |
| TRUMP | General name for one of the Major Arcana cards in tarot, such as the Fool, the Hermit or the Devil (5) |
| FROGS | In The Pirates Of Penzance, the Major-General could distinguish Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies and knew 'the croaking chorus from The ... of Aristophanes' |
| TET | In 1968, which Vietnamese Lunar New Year holiday was being celebrated at the time of the major surprise offensive by the communistvforces in the Vietnam War? (3) |
| ALLIED | The major ones during the First World War were Great Britain (and its empire), France and the Russian empire (6) |
| BRONCHOS | Any of the major air passages of the lungs which diverge from the windpipe (8) |
| GREATWAR | In the last air raid of the ..., Major Egbert ..., heir to the chocolate empire, took off from Great Yarmouth's South Denes air base and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down a Ze |
| CADBURY | In the last air raid of the ..., Major Egbert ..., heir to the chocolate empire, took off from Great Yarmouth's South Denes air base and was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for shooting down a Ze |
| WORLDWAR | War in which the major nations of the world are involved (5,3) |
| MIMAS | The smallest and innermost of the major regular moons of Saturn. It was discovered in 1789 by the English astronomer William Herschel. Its most noteworthy feature is a 130-km- (80-mile-) diameter crat |
| SKYE | Isle of _, the largest and northernmost of the major islands in the Inner Hebrides (4) |
| ISAIAH | The first of the major Hebrew prophets in the Old Testament (6) |
| PERICARDIUM | Membranous sac enclosing the heart and the commencements of the major blood vessels (11) |
