| BLAKENEY | ___ Point, saltmarsh and sand dune nature reserve in North Norfolk (8) |
| REED | Tall marsh or water grass, some of the best examples can be seen in the S'Albufera nature reserve in north Mallorca (4) |
| ORACHE | Saltmarsh plant that offers alternative to pain (6) |
| RISINGTIDE | Danger for the saltmarsh sparrow |
| CROMER | English town and seaside resort in North Norfolk (6) |
| FOSSIL | There are more than 20,000 ... finds per year in North Norfolk (6) |
| MARSH | Wet land, for example the S'Albufera reserve in north Mallorca (5) |
| EVERGLADES | Largest subtropical wilderness reserve in North America |
| ABERLADY | Large bay in the Lothians created, a Local Nature Reserve in 1952 (8) |
| NAGSHEAD | RSPB Nature Reserve in Forest of Dean... aged Nash redesigned (8) |
| WALLASEA | ___ Island, man-made nature reserve in Essex (8) |
| SEAHENGE | Bronze Age timber circle discovered in 1998 off the north Norfolk coast (8) |
| CAMARGUE | The ----, nature reserve in Rhone delta (8) |
| GOSSMOOR | National nature reserve in Cornwall (4,4) |
| GASLIGHT | 1938 play by Patrick Hamilton (who spent his final years on the North Norfolk coast) that was turned into the Broadway play Angel Street and a 1944 film starring Ingrid Bergman (3,5) |
| COLORADO | U.S. state that contains the Great Sand Dunes National Park (8) |
| SNORIFTS | *Winter cousins of sand dunes |
| SNOWDON | Welsh mountain and nature reserve in Gwynedd, home to plants including the lily Gagea serotina (7) |
| WRENSNEST | World famous SSSI and nature reserve in Dudley - home of Britain's shortest bird? (5,4) |
| INVERPOLLY | Large Nature Reserve in Wester Ross, north of Ullapool (10) |