| WELWYNGARDEN | "New Town" of the 1920s (6,6,4) |
| ESSEX | Historic English county that contains the new towns of Basildon and Harlow (5) |
| NORTHBRIDGE | Structure built in 1897 to link the old and new towns of Edinburgh (5,6) |
| RABAUL | Town of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea; capital of the Australian-administered Territory of New Guinea from 1921 to 1941 (6) |
| HENLEY | Casual top with a buttoned placket in the traditional style of the rowers of a regatta hosted in/near a town of the same name on the Thames (6) |
| BRIGHT | Shining, like an illustrious "young thing" of the 1920s, the lights of the city or the eyes of one with a bushy tail (6) |
| HAM | Town of the Somme department of France - Joan of Arc and the future Napoleon III were two notable detainees in its fortress (3) |
| LERWICK | Northernmost town of the British Isles, in the Shetlands on the island of Mainland (7) |
| DELFT | Town of the SW Netherlands famous for being the birthplace of the painter Jan Vermeer (1632-75) |
| BEVERLEY | Market town that is the county town of the East Riding of Yorkshire (8) |
| LOURDES | French pilgrimage town of the grotto where St Bernadette received her visions of the Virgin Mary |
| SHERIFF | Elected official who is in charge of enforcing the law in a county or town of the US (7) |
| DODGECITY | County seat of Ford County, Kansas, on the Arkansas River, famous for its history as a wild frontier town of the Old West (5,4) |
| LAKEJINDABYNE | What body of water, formed by the Snowy River dam, covers a small town of the same name? (4,9) |
| STANLEY | The capital and only town of the Falkland Islands (7) |
| CARLOW | County and town of the Republic of Ireland (6) |
| NEWPORT | County town of the Isle of Wight |
| BARROW | One name for the northernmost town of the United States |
| ROTHESAY | Principal town of the Isle of Bute |
| STONEHAVEN | County town of the historic county of Kincardineshire (10) |
