| NAGASAKI | A port in Japan, on West Kyushu, almost completely destroyed in 1945 by an atomic bomb (8) |
| KOBE | Port in Japan on Osaka Bay (4) |
| OKAYAMA | A city in Japan, on west Honshu on the Inland Sea (7) |
| BIWA | Largest freshwater lake in Japan, on west central Honshu Island north-east of Kyoto (4) |
| YOKOHAMA | Port in japan |
| DRESDEN | Industrial city in S.E. Germany almost destroyed in 1945 by Allied bombing (7) |
| HIROSHIMA | City destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945 (9) |
| NAGOYA | A castle in which Japanese city was built in 1612, destroyed in 1945, and rebuilt in 1959? (6) |
| MANAGUA | Which city in Nicaragua was almost completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1972? (7) |
| ENOLA | ____ Gay, plane that was the first to drop an atomic bomb in warfare, in 1945 (5) |
| YPRES | Belgian town in West Flanders province that was completely destroyed in World War I |
| JODRELLBANK | ? Observatory, University of Manchester site in Cheshire established in 1945 by Dr Bernard Lovell (7,4) |
| ARAB | ___ 1; international association formed in Cairo in 1945 by 11 and others (4) |
| BIKINI | Atoll in the Pacific, site of an atomic-bomb test in 1946 (6) |
| LENS | Industrial town in North France that was completely destroyed in the First World War (4) |
| NAGANO | City in Japan on Honshu island which houses a Buddhist shrine and two universities (6) |
| OSAKA | Port in Japan that was the chief commercial centre in feudal times (5) |
| MCNAMARASBAND | Popular song by Shamus O'Connor and John J Stamford recorded in late 1945 by Bing Crosby |
| JAGUAR | Car company founded in 1945 by William Lyons (6) |
| ELLE | Magazine co-founded in 1945 by Helene Gordon Lazareff |
