| MESSINA | Chaos in a city on Sicily |
| SYRACUSE | New York's fourth-largest city, named after a classical Greek city on Sicily (8) |
| AVIGNON | A city on the Rhone in Southeast France; seat of the Papacy 1309-77 (7) |
| ORLEANS | A city on the Loire river in north central France. |
| UTRECHT | Church in utter chaos in Dutch city (7) |
| NICOISE | Salade -; dish of tomatoes, black olives, tuna, anchovies and hard-boiled eggs, named after a city on the Cote d'Azur (7) |
| BRISTOL | A city on the River Avon that's unruly - bolt, sir! (7) |
| TELAVIV | ...a city on Israel's coast (3,4) |
| ROUTINE | What is normal locally might be chaos in Japan, maybe (7) |
| TURMOIL | Chaos in Timor university upset student (7) |
| STAMINA | The enduring characteristic of gundogs is to cause chaos in Tasmania, endlessly (7) |
| ANARCH | Creator of chaos in a bridge (6) |
| ESHER | Sheer chaos in a Surrey town (5) |
| ARENA | Sad at heart over the near chaos in a stadium (5) |
| ECARTE | Create chaos in a card game |
| WICHITA | One contacting most of those in 31 across ahead of trouble in Washington, and a city on the Arkansas River? (7) |
| ROUEN | With a cathedral depicted in a series of paintings by Monet, a city on the Seine serving as the capi |
| PISA | It is a city on the Arno 50 miles (80 km) west of Florence. It became a Roman colony soon after 180 BCE. Its university was founded circa 1343. Its piazza includes a certain leaning tower. In The Tami |
| HOBART | A city on a small island under a larger one (6) |
| ARCHEMEDES | Ancient Greek mathematician, engineer, astronomer and inventor who lived in the city of Syracuse, on Sicily (10) |