| OLDHARRY | ___ ___ Rocks; 65 million-year-old chalk sea stacks in Dorset marking the most easterly point of the Jurassic Coast (3,5) |
| HOY | The Old Man of ---, red sandstone sea stack in Orkney (3) |
| MESOZOICERA | Period of the dinosaurs, between 230 and 65 million years ago: 2 wds. |
| OLDMANOFHOY | Sea stack in the Orkney Islands, first climbed in 1966 |
| SALINGER | Author of a 65+-million-selling novel |
| CAPEBYRON | Headland in New South Wales that is the most easterly point of Australia (4,5) |
| PLIOSAURS | Mega-predators of the Jurassic sea; a 155-million-year-old fossilised skull of which was found in Dorset in 2009 (9) |
| LAMBAY | The most easterly point in the state is located on which island off the coast of Dublin? (6) |
| THANET | Isle of ---, the most easterly point of Kent (6) |
| THENEEDLES | Group of chalk stacks in the sea off the western tip of the Isle of Wight (3,7) |
| NEEDLES | The ___, group of chalk stacks in the English Channel off the coast of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| LUCY | Name given to the 3.2 million year-old skeleton unearthed from Ethiopia's Lower Valley of the Awash in 1974 |
| DNA | Two-million-year-old discovery in 2022 in the frozen soil of Greenland |
| HARRY | Old ___ Rocks; chalk formations at the Jurassic Coast's most-easterly point (5) |
| DUNEISTEIN | Archaeological site on an inter-tidal sea stack on the north east coast of the Isle of Lewis, near the village of Knockaird |
| HOPEWELLROCKS | ___ ___ Provincial Park (where to find tidal erosion sea stacks nicknamed 'Flowerpots' in the Bay of Fundy region of New Brunswick) |
| ORKNEY | The sea stack the Old Man of Hoy is a feature of this island group (6) |
| FOSSILBUTTE | National Monument in southwest Wyoming with a 50-million-year-old lake bed: 2 wds. |
| ERITREA | African country where a one million-year-old Homo erectus skull was found in 1997 (7) |
| RHODIAN | Native or inhabitant of the most easterly island in the Aegean (7) |
