| ACAPULCO | A port and resort in Mexico, in Guerrero state (8) |
| TAMPICO | Port and resort in Mexico (7) |
| VANADIUM | Element discovered in Mexico in 1801 and first called 'brown lead' (8) |
| ISTANBUL | A port and former capital of Turkey (8) |
| TLAXCALA | Smallest of the 32 estados (states) of Mexico, in the east central region bordered by Puebla, Mexico and Hidalgo (8) |
| GUERRERO | Vicente ?, revolutionary general elected president of Mexico in 1829 (8) |
| ANZIO | A port and resort on the West coast of Italy, a site of Allied landings in World War II (5) |
| OSTEND | A port and resort in North West Belgium, on the North Sea (6) |
| DIEPPE | A port and resort in Normandy, on the English Channel (6) |
| RIMINI | A port and resort in Northeast Italy, on the Adriatic coast (6) |
| POOLE | A port and resort in Dorset (5) |
| EARLETS | A port and resort in South East England, at the mouth of the River Medway (9) |
| TIMARU | A port and resort on Canterbury Bight, New Zealand (6) |
| BIERCE | Ambrose ?, US poet and satirist who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (6) |
| GREATYARMOUTH | A port and seaside resort in England's East Norfolk (5,8) |
| TROTSKY | Which leader of the Russian Revolution was assassinated by a Soviet agent in Mexico in 1940? (7) |
| LEONTROTSKY | Chief architect of the Russian Revolution, assassinated in Mexico in 1940 (4,7) |
| AMBROSEBIERCE | Author of the Devil's Dictionary who disappeared in Mexico in 1913 (7,6) |
| AZTEC | Civilisation that flourished in Mexico in the 14th to 16th centuries (5) |
| HOLA | Greeting in Guerrero |
