| MACHUPICCHU | Ancient city located high in the Andes - heavy rain destroyed access to the site for a month in 2010 |
| CHESS | Backbenches seem to be the site for a game (5) |
| SPOTCHECK | Look behind the site for a random inspection (4,5) |
| TROY | Ancient city located in modern Turkey, famous for a 10-year siege by the Greeks (4) |
| LAPAZ | Bolivia's seat of government, located high in the Andes (2,3) |
| CHEDDAR | Situated near to the site of the UK's largest gorge and famous for cheese, a village in the Mendip Hills through which the Sustrans Strawberry Line passes (7) |
| TITICACA | Lying high in the Andes Mountains, astride the border between Peru and Bolivia, it is the second largest lake in South America (8) |
| AQUAESULIS | You say Sue and Lisa, who have a place in the centre of Torquay, are off to the site of an ancient Roman town near Bristol? (5,5) |
| TUNIS | African capital city founded close to the site of the historical city of Carthage (5) |
| ARDENNES | Belgian forest region known as the site for the WWII offensive, the Battle of the Bulge |
| THERMIDOR | Back-to-front anchorite with back-to-front staff for a month in revolutionary France (9) |
| ENUMERATE | Use the last of rotten manure on a fair amount of the site for Count (9) |
| BELLAHOUSTON | Park in Glasgow which is the site for Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 'House for an Art Lover' (12) |
| THEBES | Ancient city located along the River Nile, founded around 3200 BC (6) |
| INVERNESS | City close to the site of the Battle of Culloden (9) |
| MACHU | This Inca city is situated over 2,000 metres high in the Andes, ... Picchu |
| NISAN | November is a name for a month in Israel (5) |
| DURANGO | Mexican city located in the south central part of the state of the same name in the fertile valley of the Sierra Madre Occidental (7) |
| AGRA | Wee Margaret flies up to the site of the Taj Mahal (4) |
| MARBLE | London monument that stands close to the site of the Tyburn gallows, ... Arch |
