| BYZANTIUM | Ancient Greek city on the Bosphorus, site of modem Istanbul (9) |
| EPIDAUROS | Ancient Greek city on the Argolid coast and home to a sanctuary that is now a Unesco World Heritage Site, named after the son of Apollo (9) |
| DELPHI | An ancient Greek city on the Southern slopes of Mount Parnassus, site of the most famous oracle of Apollo (6) |
| THERA | Ancient Greek city on the island of Santorini, abandoned after a volcanic eruption |
| SMYRNA | Ancient Greek city on the Aegean coast of Anatolia (6) |
| ELEA | Ancient Greek city on the coast of Lucania |
| USKUDAR | In which part of Istanbul, on the Anatolian shore of the Bosphorus, is the Selimiye Barracks with it |
| EPHESUS | Ancient Greek city on the Ionian coast (7) |
| CYRENE | Ancient Greek city on the Mediterranean, famous for its medicine school (6) |
| MARMARA | Sea of ___, found between the Bosphorus and Dardanelles (7) |
| SEAOFMARMARA | Inland body of water in Turkey between the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits (3,2,7) |
| DEMOISELLES | Les d'Avignon, large 1907 oil painting by Pablo Picasso that is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modem Art in New York (11) |
| ISTANBUL | City spanning the Bosphorus (8) |
| BACTRIA | Ancient region spanning parts of modem Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, probably subdued in the sixth century BC by Persian king Cyrus the Great (7) |
| TURKEY | Country spanning the Bosphorus |
| LIRAS | Coins depicting the Bosphorus Bridge |
| RUSSOPHOBE | Enemy of Moscow devastates Bosphorus leading to end of Constantinople (10) |
| ALEXANDRIA | Long solo in opera embraces the French cross and old Greek city on Med (10) |
| SYRACUSE | New York's fourth-largest city, named after a classical Greek city on Sicily (8) |
| MARX | Karl, German founder of modem communism (4) |
