| GIFU | Japanese city noted for its tradition of cormorant fishing (4) |
| HERITAGE | What not to ask a lady about sex? It's tradition (8) |
| KOBE | Japanese city noted for its tender marbled Wagyu beef (4) |
| SONG | Any one of a series of musical compositions for voice as part of the tradition of wassailing, carolling or midnight mass (4) |
| SHAG | Marine and coastal bird of cormorant family (4) |
| PISA | Tuscan city noted for its leaning campanile (4) |
| ASTI | Italian city noted for its sparkling wine (4) |
| SAPPORO | Japanese city noted for its brewing and brewing museum (7) |
| OKAYAMA | Japanese city noted for its Korakuen Garden (7) |
| EGGS | Said to turn to diamonds 100 years after being laid on Good Friday, symbols of birth, life and of spring, used in the tradition of jarping and depicted in chocolate at Easter (4) |
| EPOS | Collection of poems concerned with the tradition of a people (4) |
| ETON | School in Berkshire with a tradition of the wall game and a unique system of house and sporting colours (4) |
| NEHI | Its bottle reads "The Tradition of Taste Since 1924" |
| BRER | Trickster character in the African-American oral tradition of the Southern USA, _ Rabbit (4) |
| TURF | Grassy layer such as that tamped down with the foot between chukkas in the polo tradition of divot stomping (4) |
| ETSY | Online site that's in the tradition of craft fairs |
| PENN | Ivy with a tradition of throwing toast |
| LASH | "The traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the _": Winston Churchill (4) |
| NIKKO | Japanese city noted for the lavishly decorated Shinto shrine, Toshogu (5) |
| KENDO | With its origins in the tradition of the samurai and meaning "way of the sword", a Japanese martial art and form of fencing using bamboo staves (5) |