| SALVADOR | A port in East Brazil, the capital of Bahia state (8) |
| RIODEJANEIRO | Port in South East Brazil, the country's capital from 1763 to 1960 (3,2,7) |
| SAMBA | Beat of Bahia |
| BRISBANE | A port in East Australia; the capital of Queensland (8) |
| VALENCIA | A port in East Spain on the Mediterranean, Spain's third-largest city (8) |
| HASTINGS | Seaside town and Cinque Port in East Sussex whose history, including its now-ruined Norman motte and bailey castle established by William the Conqueror in 1066, is stitched into the very fabric of the |
| SAOPAULO | Large state capital in south-east Brazil (pop above 212 million), founded in 1554 (3,5) |
| LONSDALE | What is a street in Melbourne's CBD, a port in Victoria, a square in London, a quay in Vancouver and a "belt" is a British boxing prize? (8) |
| DUNDEE | A port in East Scotland, on the Firth of Tay (6) |
| NEWHAVEN | Port in East Sussex |
| CALCUTTA | Large share of money invested in boat by a port in India once (8) |
| ESPIRITO | And 20 Across State on the Atlantic coast of east Brazil; capital, Vitoria (8,5) |
| SANTO | State on the Atlantic coast of east Brazil; capital, Vitoria (8,5) |
| NATAL | A seaport and state capital in north-east Brazil (pop about 900,000), founded in 1599 (5) |
| MATOGROSSO | The third largest state in Brazil, the name meaning "thick brushes" |
| NAGASAKI | A port in South West Japan, on West Kyushu, almost completely destroyed in 1945 by an atomic bomb (8) |
| SANDIEGO | A port in Southern California, on the Pacific Ocean (3,5) |
| BAHIA | A state in north-east Brazil (218,431 sq miles; pop about 15 million) (5) |
| SERGIPE | Smallest state of Brazil, bordering Bahia and Alagoas; capital, Aracaju (7) |
| ALICANTE | A port in SE Spain (8) |
