| IRO | Wigan Warriors. St Helens. New Zealand and Cook Islands centre known as 'The Beast' (3) |
| ALMANSUR | In the mid-8th century, who founded the Baghdad library and translation centre known as the House of |
| TROY | Helen's new home |
| DENNISSKINNER | The longest continuously serving Labour MP, known as 'the Beast of Bolsover' (6,7) |
| BROCK | WWE superstar Lesnar who's also known as "the Beast" |
| SPOT | Pure as the beast at the start of the Kipling story? (8) |
| CAPRICCIO | Top police in the past find Channel Islands centre chaotic with free and lively tunes (9) |
| INTERIOR | Bury gold around island's centre |
| ORR | Danny ___, Great Britain, Wigan Warriors and Castleford Tigers rugby league player who retired in 2012 (3) |
| JAI | Wigan Warriors and former Parramatta Eels halfback (3,5) |
| LEE | 2014-2015 Parramatta Eels prop between spells at Wigan Warriors (3) |
| YUL | Winner of "Survivor: Cook Islands" |
| MAORI | Member of the people of New Zealand and the Cook Islands since before the arrival of European settle |
| EE | One of the tiny islands in the Aitutaki atoll of the Cook Islands (2) |
| POLYNESIA | Archipelago in the Pacific that includes the Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu (9) |
| RAROTONGA | Largest of the Cook Islands in the SW Pacific; site of the capital, Avarua (9) |
| NIUE | Island country in the South Pacific east of Tonga and west of the Cook Islands; capital, Alofi (4) |
| SICK | Is returning to The Cook Islands initially as is unwell (4) |
| CRETE | Island centre of the Minoan civilisation (5) |
| CRETAN | Of a Greek island, centre of the Minoan civilisation (6) |
