| SALISBURYPLAIN | Chalk plateau in Wiltshire from which the site of ancient hillfort Old Sarum rises (9,5) |
| OLDSARUM | Ancient hillfort, later a 'rotten borough' near Salisbury - also drum, perhaps (3, 5) |
| SALISBURY | Old Sarum was the original site of this city (9) |
| ELEANOR | Queen-consort of France and later queen of England, imprisoned for 16 years at locations including Old Sarum and Winchester Castle (7) |
| RUMBA | In Old Sarum bachelors held a dance (5) |
| TUNIS | It was a Roman city on the north coast of Africa, near the site of ancient Carthage. It was occupied by the Germans in 1942 and liberated by Allied troops in 1943. In The Tempest (act 2, scene 1), Seb |
| GAUL | Village in Egypt on the Nile that occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes (6) |
| KARNAK | Village in Egypt on the Nile that occupies part of the site of ancient Thebes (6) |
| LUXOR | Town in Egypt which part of the site of ancient Thebes (5) |
| NABLUS | Town west of the River Jordan near the site of ancient Shechem |
| USTYURT | Plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya river delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the |
| RITE | The Sarum ____ was the main form of liturgy in pre-Reformation England |
| AHAGGAR | Name for a large plateau in the north centre of the Sahara, on the Tropic of Cancer, North Africa. Its height is above 3,000 feet (900 metres), culminating in Mount Tahat in southeastern Algeria. (7) |
| CASABLANCA | North African city on the site of ancient Anfa (10) |
| PLAINSOFABRAHAM | Plateau in E Canada between the city of Quebec and the St Lawrence River; scene of an important British victory (1759) in the Seven Years' War (6,2,7) |
| CHOTANAGPUR | The --- --- plateau in eastern India covers much of the state of Jharkhand (5,6) |
| PARAMO | High plateau in the Andes between the tree line and the permanent snow line (6) |
| DUNADD | Iron Age hillfort in lGlmartin Glen (6) |
| WARREN | Across North Somerset SSSI with Iron Age hillfort - burrowed, nearly ruined (8, 6) |
| DOLEBURY | Across North Somerset SSSI with Iron Age hillfort - burrowed, nearly ruined (8, 6) |
