| GENOA | Anglicised spelling of the capital of Italy's Liguria region |
| DACCA | Former spelling of the capital of Bangladesh (5) |
| BARI | Port which is the capital of Italy's Apulia region |
| CONNAUGHT | Anglicised spelling of a province in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland |
| GENOESE | From the capital of the Liguria region of Italy (7) |
| MAFIKENG | Anglicised spelling of one of three key British military towns under siege in the South African War (8) |
| CADERIDRIS | Anglicised spelling of a notable peak south of Dolgellau |
| PESTO | Sauce originating in Genoa in the Liguria region of northern Italy in the mid-nineteenth century, typically served with pasta (5) |
| LASPEZIA | Port city in the Liguria region of northern Italy; the country's chief naval base (2,6) |
| NAPLES | Capital of the Campania region of Italy (anglicised spelling) |
| CELEBES | Anglicised spelling of Sulawesi (Indonesia) |
| DOVEY | Anglicised spelling of Welsh river Dyfi (5) |
| DIERI | What is one of the spellings of the name of the Australian Aboriginal people of the Cooper Creek dis |
| ALLKIEV | The whole of the area, or the population, of the capital of Ukraine (3,4) |
| SYRACUSE | City of central New York State at the south end of Lake Onondaga; site of the capital of the Iroquois Confederacy (8) |
| LOANDA | What was the former spelling of the seaport that is the capital of Angola? (6) |
| CARATACUS | (One spelling of) the name of the leader of the resistance against Romans in Britain during Claudius's reign (9) |
| GWYN | One of the spellings of the surname of an orange-seller who became a leading actress at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and a mistress of Charles II (4) |
| ISEULT | One of the spellings of the wife of Mark of Cornwall who was in love with the latter's knight, Tristan (6) |
| LIGHTSABRE | In an anglicised spelling, a weapon of the Jedi knights in the Star Wars films |
