| WIESBADEN | State capital of Hesse in southern Germany, known in Roman times as Aquae Mattiacorum (9) |
| STUTTGART | State capital in southern Germany (pop about 650,000), founded in the 10th century (9) |
| DARMSTADT | Industrial city in Hesse, Central Germany, known as the City of Science (9) |
| HOPSCOTCH | Which children's game originated in Roman times as a training exercise for soldiers? (9) |
| NUREMBERG | City in southern Germany, in Bavaria (9) |
| ARLON | Capital of the Walloon province of Luxembourg in SE Belgium, known in Roman times as Orolaunum (5) |
| FRANKFURT | The most populous city in the German state of Hesse (9) |
| SLUSHFUND | Source of corruption in opulent sport dividing southern Germany (5,4) |
| TRENTO | City on the Adige River in N Italy known in Roman times as Tridentum (6) |
| CIRENCESTER | Largest town in the Cotswolds, known in Roman times as Corinium (11) |
| NIMES | French department capital known in Roman times as Nemausus |
| EARLYBATH | Result of seeing red in Aquae Sulis? (5,4) |
| BAVARIA | Munich is the capital of which state in southern Germany? (7) |
| BATH | City in Somerset known as Aquae Sulis in Roman Britain (4) |
| OBERAMMERGAU | Venue in southern Germany of a Passion Play performed every ten years to recall the outbreak of the Black Death there in 1633 (12) |
| SCRAWLED | Much of town in southern Germany put down unintelligibly (8) |
| TRABANT | Car of East Germany, known jokingly as the "spark plug with a roof" |
| CHEMNITZ | City in Saxony, Germany, known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt (8) |
| HEIDELBERG | City in south-west Germany known for its university, founded in 1386 (10) |
| ABSURD | Graduate coming up with an ancient city in southern Germany? Ridiculous (6) |
