| RIPON | A cathedral city in northern England (pop about 17,000) (5) |
| LEEDS | Large city in northern England (pop about 800,000) (5) |
| HARROGATE | Spa town in northern England (pop about 75,000) (9) |
| STOKE | English market town in the West Midlands (pop about 17,000) (5) |
| TRURO | Small cathedral city in south-west England (pop about 19,000) (5) |
| ELGIN | Former royal burgh and cathedral city in northern Scotland (pop about 25,000 (5) |
| DOVER | Major ferry port in the south of England (pop about 31,000) (5) |
| WELLS | Small town in north-east England (pop about 8,000) (5) |
| ROUEN | Regional capital and cathedral city in northern France (pop 110,000) (5) |
| ROUNE | Cathedral city in northern France (pop 470,000) (5) |
| FYLDE | Region of north-west England (pop about 80,000) (5) |
| EMILY | Name a motorway in a cathedral city (5) |
| ELEGY | Something poetic, for instance, in a cathedral city (5) |
| SARUM | Initially such a strange old name for a cathedral city |
| SPARTA | Small town in southern Greece (pop about 17,000), once a major military power (6) |
| SUNDERLAND | Large port city in England (pop about 170,000) created a city in 1992 (10) |
| EEL | A catadromous snig which is glass-like during its stage as an elver and formerly prevalent in a cathedral city in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire (3) |
| WORCESTER | A cathedral city in W central England on the River Severn (9) |
| TONIC | New England pop |
| CANTERBURY | Cathedral city in southern England (pop about 55,000), part of a World Heritage Site (10) |
