| BIGSUR | Mountainous section of the Central Coast of California (3,3) |
| ANGOLA | Country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa (6) (6) |
| MALIBU | Resort on the Pacific coast of California (6) |
| ABUSES | Taunts Central Coast coaches (6) |
| RIVER | A station on the Central Coast line, starting with a bird of war |
| HAWKESBURY | A station on the Central Coast line, starting with a bird of war (10,5) |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
| EPPING | The eastern terminus of the Central Line of the London Underground |
| UBANGI | Tributary of the Congo River on which the capital of the Central African Republic stands (6) |
| BHOPAL | Capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, known as the City of Lakes (6) |
| SANTAMONICA | Resort city on the coast of California (5,6) |
| PISMO | ___ clam (mollusk found off the coast of California) |
| DRAKE | He claimed the coast of California for Queen Elizabeth |
| BANGUI | The capital of the Central African Republic |
| OPIATE | Drug of the central tropics, a sort of tea (6) |
| MONTEREY | US port and resort in Central Coast, California north of San Luis Obispo |
| AGOUTI | Any rodent of the Central and South American genus Dasyprocta, related to the guinea pig (6) |
| SPINAL | ___ cord (part of the central nervous system) |
| ELNINO | Name given to periodic warming of the central Pacific (2,4) |
| AYMARA | Language or people of the central Andes |