| AUCKLAND | Area also surround bad luck as a city (8) |
| SANDRINGHAM | False barricades also surround huge estate (11) |
| HANSEL | Same as handsel, a present for good luck as a t a New Year or on the launching of a business |
| STRIKE | Lash out when you get luck as a prospector (6) |
| CROTCHET | Note private area also in Cannes? (8) |
| KINSHASA | Relative quiet as a city in Africa (8) |
| BONANZAS | Strokes of luck as ban on travel includes Zurich to begin with (8) |
| NICKLAUS | Change of luck, as in Jack of clubs? (8) |
| BYPASSES | Avoids when driving, as a city |
| POPULATE | Fill with citizens as a city |
| HOODOO | Bad luck as the gangster rings (6) |
| KNOCKONWOOD | Precaution against bad luck as rugby infraction would be reported (5,2,4) |
| MAP | A drawing of a particular area, such as a city or country (3) |
| BREAK | If a person received a visit from Lady Luck as hoped, he finally caught a ___ |
| HEARTH | A domestic fireside, upon which a cricket seen to be chirping is traditionally considered to be a symbol of household good luck, as depicted in one of Dickens's Christmas novellas (6) |
| LEITH | Edinburgh's port area. also a stream running through Dunedin (5) |
| YONKERS | A city in New York State (pop about 200,000), incorporated as a city in 1872 (7) |
| BRUMMIE | As a city dweller, mum's awkward in french agricultural area |
| MONADNOCK | Isolated hill of hard rock in an otherwise eroded area, also known as an inselberg (9) |
| ARMPIT | Body area also called the axilla (6) |
