| SELBY | Yorkshire town certainly backed retaining pound (5) |
| SEXY | Erotic ___ certainly backed receiving appropriate classification (4) |
| AIRER | Artist backed retaining passion and support for clothes |
| WOEFUL | Not many backed retaining old centre of Hull - that's sad |
| GHOUL | Spirit in Yorkshire town by the sound of it (5) (5) |
| OTLEY | West Yorkshire town, disparate, lacking leadership (5) |
| RIPON | Don't tear off to see North Yorkshire town (5) |
| HAWES | He was touring... Yorkshire town, home of Wensleydale cheese (5) |
| FILEY | Coastal Yorkshire town (5) |
| HEART | ITV drama series that was set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite, Where The _ Is (5) |
| BOOLE | Mathematician and philosopher, having drunk beer, go into East Yorkshire town (6,5) |
| WHERETHEHEARTIS | TV drama series about community nurses set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite (5,3,5,2) |
| MALTON | Centre of small town - old North Yorkshire town |
| REDCEDAR | Coniferous tree Edward planted in Yorkshire town (3,5) |
| GEORGE | Mathematician and philosopher, having drunk beer, go into East Yorkshire town (6,5) |
| BILLYLIAR | 1959 Keith Waterhouse novel set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Stradhoughton (5,4) |
| SELLBYDATE | Yorkshire town accepting large fruit - no good if past this? |
| SETTLE | Resolve to colonise North Yorkshire town (6) |
| GOOGLE | Search for a little girl in Yorkshire town (6) |
| RESETTLE | Make new home right above East Yorkshire town (8) |