| CREMONA | City in Lombardy, Italy on the River Po, noted for the manufacture of fine violins (7) |
| VARESE | Historic city in Lombardy, noted for the manufacture of leather goods (6) |
| AMATI | Maker of fine violins |
| HORSEHAIR | Animal fibre used for the strings of fine violin bows. (9) |
| AMATIS | Fine violins |
| STRADS | Fine violins |
| LEATHER | Tanned skin used for making handbags, jackets and shoes etc; in Mallorca the town of Inca is the centre for the manufacture and sale of such products (7) |
| BERGAMO | Walled city in Lombardy, Italy, to the north-east of Milan (7) |
| RAVENNA | City in Italy on a reclaimed plain near the River Po delta (7) |
| TANAGRA | Town in Boeotia, ancient Greece, renowned for the manufacture of terracotta figurines |
| BRESCIA | City in Lombardy, Italy west of Lake Garda (7) |
| MAKINGS | A future possibility for the manufacture of sulphur (7) |
| LEBLANC | Nicolas, French chemist who invented a process for the manufacture of soda from common salt (2,5) |
| ERIDANI | Poetical, ie Greek, name for the River Po (gen.), Aen. 6.659 |
| PIACENZA | City in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on the River Po southeast of Milan (8) |
| ARDROSSAN | In which small South Australian port on Gulf St Vincent did the inventor of the Vixen stump-jump plough open a factory in 1880 for the manufacture of ploughs? (9) |
| TURIN | City in Piedmont, Italy, on the River Po associated with motor car manufacturer Fiat |
| STETIENNE | French city formerly known for the manufacture of arms and ribbons (2-7) |
| TILERY | A place for the manufacture of baked/fired slabs of clay used for covering floors or walls (6) |
| MANTUA | City in Lombardy, Italy. northeast of Parma surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes (6) |
