| TITOGRAD | Former name of a capital city in the Balkans (1946-62) (8) |
| SPLIT | Narrow promontory around large city in the Balkans (5) |
| DACCA | Former name of a capital city in Asia (pop 9 million), once called "The Venice of the East" (5) |
| ASTANA | Former name of a capital city in central Asia (pop about 1.3 million) (6) |
| AROMA | Peculiar flavour of a capital city in its own words (5) |
| TOKYO | A capital city in the east plays host to a single release by White Lies (5) |
| MANILA | Fellow I left west of a capital city |
| ATHENA | Greek goddess of a capital city (6) |
| ATLANTA | Princess famed when running out of a capital city (7) |
| CAPARISON | Decoration of a capital city? Something fraudulent about it (9) |
| BOMBAY | Former name of a city and port in the west of India (6) |
| THEALBERTHALL | With a similar name to London's iconic venue, this was the main place for entertainment in Australia's capital city in the 1940s and 50s (3,6,4) |
| NAIROBI | Lost Biro in a capital city in East Africa (7) |
| COPENHAGEN | A capital city in northern Europe (pop about 800,000), founded in 1167 (10) |
| ASNIERES | Former name of a Parisian suburb on the Seine depicted in a series of paintings by Vincent van Gogh (8) |
| LAPAZ | Highest capital city in the world, in the Andes at an altitude of approximately 3,660 m (12,000 ft) (2,3) |
| AYERSROCK | Former name of a large monolith in the Northern Territory of Australia (5,4) |
| SIEGE | Investment possibly in the hope of a capital gain (5) |
| TUNIS | A capital city in northern Africa (pop about 1 million) (5) |
| PRAGUE | A capital city in central Europe (pop about 1.3 million) (6) |
