| UDAIPUR | City in India, former capital of the Mewar kingdom (7) |
| INDORE | City of central India, former capital of the princely state of the Maratha Holkars (6) |
| HINDU | Native of India, former peasant, heading for university |
| LUCKNOW | City in India that is the capital of Uttar Pradesh (7) |
| GUILDER | Former capital of the Netherlands? (7) |
| ADAMANT | Firm as a coastal city in India is tense (7) |
| CHENNAI | Sixth most populous city in India, formerly known as Madras (7) |
| KOLKATA | Largest city in India (7) |
| MADURAI | Wild never-ending monsoon around university city in India |
| ABOMEY | City in Benin, former capital of the ancient kingdom of Dahomey (6) |
| HUE | Port in central Vietnam that was the former capital of the kingdom of Annam (3) |
| NANCY | French city that was the former capital of the Duchy of Lorraine (5) |
| NYALA | Capital of Sudan's South Darfur state and former capital of the 15th century Sultanate of Fur |
| IASI | City in northeast Romania; a former capital of the country |
| LEON | University city in northwest Nicaragua; a former capital of the country |
| LAREDO | Former capital of the Republic of the Rio Grande |
| SITKA | - Spruce, evergreen tree named after a former capital of the Department of Alaska and District of Al |
| AGRA | North Indian city, former capital of the Mogul empire (4) |
| ANYANG | Chinese town in Henan province, former capital of the Shang dynasty (6) |
| MANDALAY | Former capital of the Burmese kingdom; or, a Rudyard Kipling poem (8) |
