| CITADEL | A fortress in a city (7) |
| CASBAH | Market place around a fortress in a N African town (6) |
| CASTILE | I am imprisoned in a fortress in spain (7) |
| BASTILLE | A fortress in Paris bult in 1370, later used as a state prison (8) |
| STAVROPOL | Russian city, founded as a fortress in 1777, known as Voroshilovsk from 1940 to 1944 |
| ALCAZAR | Fortress in Toledo (7) |
| KASBAH | Area around a castle or fortress in a North African town (6) |
| ANTONIO | Site of the famous Alamo fortress in Texas, San ... |
| HOLT | Term for a fortress/keep originally, later a dialect word for a grasp or grip; an otter's riverbank couch, den or lair; a refuge; or, from "twig", a copse, orchard, wood or wooded hill (4) |
| CANNES | Film-festival city near to the Lerins Islands and Ile Sainte-Marguerite, where the so-called man in the iron mask spent 11 years isolated in a fortress prison (6) |
| POTALAPALACE | Iconic dzong fortress in the city of Lhasa which is a World Heritage Site since 1994: 2 wds. |
| KRASNODAR | Russian city, founded as a Cossack fortress in the 1790s (9) |
| DRYSLWYN | ___ Castle, fortress in Carmarthenshire besieged in 1287 (8) |
| NEWCASTLE | Recent fortress in Tyneside city (9) |
| PORTCULLIS | What strong heavy grating slides down to block a gateway in a fortress? (10) |
| GARRISON | A body of troops stationed in a fortress or town (8) |
| DURHAM | This natural defensive site in northeastern England was chosen by William I the Conqueror (reigned 1066-87) as a fortress and bulwark against the Scots. It also became a place of pilgrimage for St. Cu |
| MOLE | Burrowing animal often casting up a large hill with a nesting chamber known as a fortress |
| SIEGE | Old word for a seat or throne; or, a blockade of a fortress or town (5) |
| EYRIE | An eagle's cliff-, crag-, mountain- or tree-top nest, hence a fortress, hideout, retreat etc, perched in a commandingly lofty remote place (5) |
