| SANJUAN | Capital city and chief port of Puerto Rico, founded as Ciudad de Puerto Rico in 1521 (3,4) |
| NUEVAYOL | Bad Bunny song that samples "Un Verano en Nueva York," by El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico |
| BADBUNNY | Rapper who hosted a thirty-one-show residency in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in support of his album "DeBA |
| NOBELPRIZE | No country includes Puerto Rico in accolade (5,5) |
| TRIPOLI | Capital city and chief port of Libya on the Mediterranean (7) |
| FUNCHAL | Capital city and chief port of Madeira, on the southern coast (7) |
| MOMBASA | Second largest city and chief port of Kenya (7) |
| DOMINGO | Capital of the Dominican Republic, known from 1936 to 1961 as Ciudad Trujillo (7) |
| ECUADOR | Country whose largest city and chief port is Guayaquil |
| LOME | Capital city and chief port of Togo, in the south-west on the Gulf of Guinea (4) |
| TERESINA | Capital city and chief port of the state of Piaui in NE Brazil, on the Parnaiba River (8) |
| ASUNCION | Capital city and chief port of Paraguay, founded by Spanish settlers in 1537 (8) |
| SUVA | Capital city and chief port of Fiji, on the SE coast of the island of Viti Levu (4) |
| SUCRE | Capital founded as Ciudad de la Plata de la Nueva Toledo |
| GEORGETOWN | Capital city and chief port of Guyana, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Demerara River (10) |
| NASSAU | Capital city and chief port of the Bahamas, on the NE coast of New Providence Island (6) |
| HOBART | Capital city and chief port of the island state of Tasmania, Australia (6) |
| TALLINN | Capital city and main seaport of Estonia (7) |
| LIMA | Capital founded as Ciudad de |
| MALABO | Capital city and chief port of Equatorial Guinea, formerly (until 1973) called Santa Isabel (6) |
