| RUSTBELT | Area suffering industrial decline, especially the steel-producing region of America's Midwest and NE states (4,4) |
| EROSION | Gradual decline, especially of rocks (7) |
| LOESS | Wind-blown deposit of fine yellowish-grey loam in river basins, occurring extensively in eastern China, the American Midwest and elsewhere (5) |
| DILLINGER | Bank robber in America's Midwest in the Great Depression, John ... |
| HLAND | Midwest and Plains states, e.g. |
| BABBITT | Sinclair Lewis novel about a real estate salesman, set in America's Midwest (7) |
| MACON | City in central France, a centre of the wine-producing region of lower Burgundy (5) |
| STETIENNE | French steel-producing city, with a 5km-long main street, the capital of Loire department |
| DAO | River and wine-producing region of north-central Portugal (3) |
| RUST | ___ Belt (region of industrial decline) |
| BERGERAC | Wine-producing region of the Dordogne (8) |
| BEAUJOLAIS | Wine producing region of eastern France, known for its fruity red wines made from the Gamay Noir grape (10) |
| SWELLING | Southern part of Bexley is an area suffering inflation |
| CHILEAN | Colchagua Valley is a wine-producing region of this nationality (7) |
| CHAMPLAIN | Lake ___, body of water straddling SE Canada and NE United States between the Green Mountains and Ad |
| KASHMIR | Region on the northern border of India and NE Pakistan (7) |
| SAHARADESERT | Barren region with dearths - area's suffering (6,6) |
| DUSTBOWL | Fine powder for blow manufactured in area suffering from sustained draught (4,4) |
| COLL | Island of the Inner Hebrides west of Mull and northeast of Tiree (4) |
| OPENHEARTH | *Type of steel-producing furnace |
