| VIENTIANE | Capital and largest city of Laos, on the Mekong River near the border with Thailand (9) |
| ASOCIAL | Unfriendly US spies invading Laos on manoeuvres (7) |
| PHNOMPENH | Capital city on the Mekong River |
| AGARTALA | Capital of the state of Tripura in NE India, on the banks of the Haora River near the border with Bangladesh (8) |
| LILLE | Capital of France's Nord department, on the Deule River near the border with Belgium (5) |
| SHREVEPORT | City in Louisiana, on the Red River near the border with Texas (10) |
| GORIZIA | City in north east Italy on the Isonzo River near the border with Slovenia (7) |
| ANTARCTIC | One way around river near the south pole (9) |
| LUANG | __ Prabang, Laotian city on the Mekong River (5) |
| LAO | Of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand. |
| TET | Annual fete on the Mekong River |
| BILBAO | Largest city in the autonomous Basque Country of northern Spain, on the Nervion River near the Bay of Biscay (6) |
| SEOUL | Capital city of South Korea, on the Han River near the Yellow Sea port of Inchon (5) |
| LAOS | South East Asian republic bounded in the west by the Mekong River, whose capital is Vientiane (4) |
| OKAYAMA | Japanese city on SW Honshu, on the Asahi River near the Inland Sea (7) |
| PORI | Industrial port of SW Finland on the Kokemaen River near the Gulf of Bothnia; Swedish name, Bjorneborg (4) |
| SMOLENSK | Russian city on the Dnieper River, near the Belarus border |
| ROSTOCK | City in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, on the Warnow River near the Baltic Sea coast (7) |
| CARLSBAD | A town in southeastern New Mexico on the Pecos River near the Mexican border. |
| UCAYALI | River in Peru that joins the Maranon River near the town of Nauta |
