| IRAKLION | City and capital of Crete that is also called Heraklion (8) |
| DJIBOUTI | Port city and capital of the republic of the same name that lies on the southern shore of the Gulf of Tadjoura, an inlet of the Gulf of Aden (8) |
| SCHWERIN | City and capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (8) |
| FLORENCE | Riverside city and capital of Tuscany, site of the Uffizi Gallery, where Sandro Botticelli's The Bir |
| WINNIPEG | Major Canadian city and capital of the Manitoba province |
| IDOMENEO | Opera by Mozart set in Crete that premiered in 1781 (8) |
| INCHCAPE | Island and lighthouse off the east coast of Scotland that is also called Bell Rock (8) |
| ENNEAGON | A nine-sided polygon that is also called a nonagon (8) |
| RINGDOVE | Common British bird, Columba palumbus, that is also called the woodpigeon (4,4) |
| CREOSOTE | Preservative regularly on show in the Heraklion area |
| HYDERABAD | City and capital of both Andhra Pradesh and Telangana states in India (9) |
| MEMPHIS | City and capital of ancient Egypt, sacred to the worship of Ptah (7) |
| STJOHNS | Largest city and capital of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
| BHOPAL | City and capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh, India(6) |
| CLUJ | Romania's second-biggest city and capital of the historic region of Transylvania. (4) |
| GRANADA | City and capital of a Spanish province, located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains (7) |
| SAARBRUCKEN | City and capital of Saarland, Germany (11) |
| ARNHEM | City and capital of Gelderland province in the Netherlands (6) |
| MORONI | Largest city and capital of the Comoros (6) |
| MAASTRICHT | City and capital of Limburg province in the Netherlands (10) |
