| MORAR | With Ben Nevis in its view and home to the legendary Morag, loch which is the deepest freshwater body in the British Isles (5) |
| BAIKAL | Lake in southern Siberia which is the deepest in the world (6) |
| RORAR | Loch -----, the deepest freshwater body in British Isles (5) |
| DARJEELING | Hill station and town at an altitude of around 6,700ft in West Bengal noted for its view of Kangchenjunga (the world's third-highest mountain) and tea (10) |
| GOBI | Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm |
| HALL | What's up with newspaper in fictitious case, its views distorted? (4,2,7) |
| OFMIRRORS | What's up with newspaper in fictitious case, its views distorted? (4,2,7) |
| SCENIC | This railway, though small-scale, has its views (6) |
| FIDDLERSGREEN | Song on The Tragically hip's 'Road Apples' album alluding to the legendary afterlife: 2 wds. |
| RANKNESS | Row a loch, which is most unpleasant (8) |
| NESS | Scottish loch which is a major tourist attraction |
| MEW | Cat's cry that gives its name to the legendary pink Pokemon |
| AFRICA | Containing the world's longest river, the largest hot desert and home to the biggest land mammal, the secondlargest continent on Earth (6) |
| TANGANYIKA | Longest and second deepest freshwater lake in the world, it is a boundary for Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and Zambia (10) |
| BISHOPSCASTLE | Shropshire town noted for its alternative community of artists, writers and craftspeople, and home to the Three Tuns, the UK's oldest brewery (7,6) |
| RHODES | Greek island in the Aegean Sea, largest of the Dodecanese and home to one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (6) |
| PLYMOUTH | Known as Britain's "Ocean City" and home to England's oldest gin distillery, a port from which the Pilgrim Fathers set sail in the Mayflower in 1620 (8) |
| HELLSCANYON | Cut by the Snake River in Idaho, it is the deepest gorge in the US |
| ARGENTINA | Winner of the World Cup in 1978 and 1986, and home to soccer greats Maradona and Messi |
| VATICANCITY | Smallest state in Europe and home to the Pope (7,4) |
