| EXURBAN | Beyond the metropolitan area |
| RHEINMAIN | German name of the metropolitan area in Hesse around the confluence of two rivers and of the former US airbase (5-4) |
| OSASCO | City in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo lying on the Tiete River (6) |
| PARRAMATTA | City in New South Wales, Australia, in the metropolitan area of Sydney (10) |
| GETAFE | Spanish city in the south of the Madrid metropolitan area whose football team reached the final of the Copa del Rey in 2007 and 2008 |
| TWINCITIES | Popular name for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area in the US (4,6) |
| TOKYO | Japanese city that is the most populous metropolitan area in the world |
| ARLINGTON | Virginia county, part of the Washington metropolitan area, where the Pentagon and a national cemetery are located |
| TELAVIV | The most populous city in the Gush Dan metropolitan area of Israel (3,4) |
| PLANO | City in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area |
| LOWERHUTT | Part of the Wellington metropolitan area (5,4) |
| CITYCENTRE | The air in Cairo's metropolitan area? (4,6) |
| NEWARK | US airport serving the New York metropolitan area, opened 1928 (6) |
| ELIZABETH | A saint of Hungary found in a city within the Adelaide metropolitan area |
| EVANSTON | City in the Chicagoland metropolitan area, home of Northwestern University |
| METS | Team whose name rhymes with two others in the same metropolitan area |
| ESPOO | Finland’s second-largest city, part of the Helsinki metropolitan area |
| IBADAN | City that is the third largest metropolitan area in Nigeria, after Lagos and Kano |
| STEELCITY | Metropolitan area at the junction of three rivers, familiarly |
| CITY | Metropolitan area |
