| LONDONOSLOWESTBERLIN | "Around the gleaming map of Europe / A gigantic wedding ring / Slowly revolves through ____ / 9D and home again, / Slowly revolving." (Adrian Mitchell, Autobahnmotorwayautoroute) |
| SPIRES | Head off hopes in the gleaming towers (6) |
| AUSTRALASIA | A girl briefly visits part of Europe, a vast area |
| HAUNTING | And 22D: A - in -, 2023 whodunnit film starring 21A, 29A, 9D, and 18D; based on the book Halloween Party by Agatha Christie (8,6) |
| VENICE | And 22D: A - in -, 2023 whodunnit film starring 21A, 29A, 9D, and 18D; based on the book Halloween Party by Agatha Christie (8,6) |
| ESCAPEROUTE | Way out of Europe a sect worked out |
| SHERLOCK | ___ Holmes fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle who you may associate with 20a 33a 42a 9d and 36d |
| GHOSTSOF | , 9D & 22D 2009 romcom starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner (6,2,11,4) |
| OTTOMAN | Starts on the team from The Gulf, finished up in Europe a number of years ago (7) |
| BAND | Ribbon around a hat; a plain gold wedding ring; or, a white silk or linen often lace-edged falling collar worn in the 17th century (4) |
| SHENANDOAH | A portion of the trail runs through ___ National Park, noted for spectacular panoramic views and being an example of an area that had been overused but was allowed to return to its natural state (10) |
| JUGGERNAUT | A crude idol of Krishna wheeled through Puri on a gigantic chariot |
| WEASEL | Said to fit through a wedding ring, the world's smallest carnivore (6) |
| TISBURY | Mike from Timsbury took me to see one of the oldest human inhabited sites in Europe -- a large village in Wiltshire (7) |
| KRAMPUS | In central and eastern parts of Alpine Europe, a legendary horned creature who punishes naughty children with birch branches in 45A |
| TOLL | Ring slowly and repeatedly |
| YUGOSLAVIANS | They broke up in Europe a while ago living in the old country (12) |
| ORIGAMI | Old capital in Europe a half a mile from crafty enterprise in Asia (7) |
| TRIASSIC | ___ Giant (Exhibit at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta featuring the specimen Shonisaurus Sikanniensis, a gigantic marine reptile that lived in the Mesozoicera's first period) |
| POPTARTS | ___ Bowl (Kellogg-sponsored football event featuring the "first-ever edible mascot," which was lowered into a gigantic toaster and consumed by players after the game) |
