| BALLARAT | Australian town which was originally the centre of a gold-mining region (8) |
| KLONDIKE | Gold-mining region of the 1890s (8) |
| NOME | Alaskan city founded as a gold-mining camp |
| KOLAR | ___ Gold Fields, gold mining region in Karnataka |
| ABERDARE | Coal-mining town which was the administrative centre of Cynon Valley district (8) |
| SANDWICH | Kent town which was one of the Cinque Ports (8) |
| BATHURST | City in New South Wales that was the scene of a gold rush in 1851 (8) |
| GREENOCK | Lowlands town which was the setting for TV show 'Waterloo Road' (8) |
| ELDORADO | South American legend of a gold city, kingdom or empire (2,6) |
| ALLSPICE | Aromatic fruit, first of lotus species found in Australian town (8) |
| AUDACITY | Imprisoning law-man in Australian town? That's impudence! (8) |
| BMO | The Hockey Hall of Fame at the corner of Yonge and Front was originally the home of this Cdn. financial institution |
| ORURO | City at the centre of a mining region in Bolivia with rich deposits of copper, gold, silver tin and |
| HEERLEN | City in Limburg province, the Netherlands, which is centre of a coal-mining region (7) |
| OCTOBER | This month was so named because it was originally the eighth month of the Roman calendar. (7) |
| TABLOID | What style of newspaper was originally the name of a proprietary 19th Century medicine? (7) |
| SPRINGS | The title of Nevil Shute's A Town Like Alice refers to the Australian town of Alice ... |
| PENICILLIN | Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize, discovered the structure of this antibiotic which was originally discovered by Alexander Fleming |
| WALL | Hole In The -- title of a show which was originally hosted by Dale Winton in 2008 (4) |
| DENTON | Fictional town which was the setting for A Touch of Frost (6) |
