| BYZANTIUM | Ancient Greek city on the Bosporus later called Constantinople (9) |
| HOTHOTHOT | 1987 hit by Buster Poindexter, who later called the song "the bane of my existence" |
| ISTANBUL | Turkish city on the Bosporus (8) |
| ADLER | Alfred, Austrian psychiatrist who introduced the term 'inferiority feeling' later called 'inferiority complex' (5) |
| JENNER | First to explain a cuckoo's nesting habits, later called the father of immunology (6) |
| 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) |
| EPHESUS | Ancient Greek city on the Ionian coast (7) |
| CYRENE | Ancient Greek city on the Mediterranean, famous for its medicine school (6) |
| ELEA | Ancient Greek city on the coast of Lucania |
| CAIQUE | Light,narrow rowing boat used on the Bosporus (6) |
| 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) |
| ARTA | Greek city on its own gulf |
| USKUDAR | Which densely populated part of Istanbul, on the shore of the Bosporus, was formerly known as Scutar |
| MARMARA | The Sea of ... in NW Turkey is linked to the Black Sea by the Bosporus (7) |
| BLACKSEA | What is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus? (5,3) |
| SEAOFMARMARA | Water mass linked with the Black Sea by the Bosporus (3,2,7) |
