| HOBART | Australian state capital (pop 200,000), founded as a penal colony in 1804 (6) |
| BRISBANE | Australian state capital (pop 2.5 million), founded as a penal colony in 1824 (8) |
| MANAMA | Capital city (pop 200,000) of an island nation in the Persian Gulf (6) |
| AUGUSTA | City in the south-eastern USA (pop about 200,000), founded in 1788 (7) |
| TARRAGONA | Port city in north-east Spain (pop 200,000), with a university established in 1991 (9) |
| MELBOURNE | Australian state capital (pop 5 million), founded in 1835 (9) |
| SYDNEY | Major city founded as a penal colony |
| TASMANIA | Australian state (26,410 sq miles; pop about 530,000), founded as a penal colony in 1803 (8) |
| AUSTIN | A US state capital (pop about 1 million), founded in 1839 (6) |
| ALBANY | US state capital (pop about 100,000), chartered as a city in 1696 (6) |
| PIERRE | US state capital (pop 14,000), founded in 1880 (6) |
| ALPINE | I go to a penal settlement in a high place (6) |
| GENEVA | Swiss city (pop about 200,000), a major financial centre (6) |
| PAPILLON | 1969 memoir by Henri Charriere about his imprisonment at a penal colony in French Guiana |
| BOISE | US state capital (pop about 200,000), incorporated as a city in 1863 (5) |
| TATARS | Eurovision winner 1944 is about the deportation from Crimea of some 200,000 ___. (6) |
| FRENCHGUIANA | Part of the European Union in South America, once home to a penal colony (6,6) |
| TRENTON | US state capital (pop 85,000), fouded as a city in 1790 (7) |
| DEVILSISLAND | Site of a penal colony here in French Guiana featured in Henri Charriere's memoir Papillon |
| PROVIDENCE | US state capital (pop about 180,000), founded in 1636 (10) |
