| CERRODEPASCO | A city in central Peru; one of the highest cities in the world (5,2,5) |
| EIDER | Bird features in festival in central Peru |
| AUTOBIOGRAPHIES | Books a hotel in Bogota ___ is Peru one alternative? (15) |
| SUPERHERO | Fancy horse, Peru, one to bet on in crisis? |
| GANGSTER | Mobster leads goners with acute sense of anxiety to central Peru |
| ALEPPO | Located at the end of the Asian Silk Road. and one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, what was Syria's largest city before the Syrian Civil War? (6) |
| BATHANDWELLS | See two cities in the West Country (4,3,5) |
| MARCH | A city in central Scotland on the River Tay, location of the assassination of James I of Scotland in 1437 (5) |
| LIANA | One of the world's highest cities, altitude 3700m, whose name means 'place of the gods' (5) |
| ANDES | Home to the three highest capital cities in the world |
| INDIA | Country that's home to eight of the fifty largest cities in the world |
| NAGANO | A city in central Japan on Honshu; host city of the 1998 Winter Olympics (6) |
| STIRLING | A city in Central Scotland on the River Forth, location of a famous castle (8) |
| NOUAKCHOTT | Capital of Mauritania and one of the largest cities in the Sahara (10) |
| LVIV | ____ and Vilnius were the largest cities in the Second Polish Republic that later became cities of the USSR |
| CHIMBSRAZO | Volcano rising to 20,564 ft which is the highest point in Ecuador and one of the highest in the world (10) |
| SEGOVIA | A city in Central Spain; site of a Roman aqueduct (7) |
| LHASA | One of the world's highest cities |
| RYBINSK | A city in Central Russia, on the River Volga; an important river port (7) |
| KUWAIT | Country on the Persian Gulf with one of the highest per capita incomes in the world (6) |
