| DEVENTER | City in Overijssel, the Netherlands on the River Ijssel; an early centre of printing |
| KERKRADE | City in the Netherlands on the German border which is one of the oldest coal-mining centres in Europe (8) |
| ANTIOCH | Turkish city on the Orantes river that was an early centre of Christianity |
| ROTTERDAM | Large port city of the Netherlands, on the Nieuwe Maas river (9) |
| HOTAN | Town in Xinjiang, China north of the Kunlun Mountains; an early centre of Buddhism (5) |
| IONA | Part of conservation area, an early centre of Christianity |
| DELFT | City of the SW Netherlands on the Schie River between Rotterdam and The Hague, noted for its pottery (5) |
| ARNHEM | City in the E. Netherlands on the Rhine, scene of a World War II battle (6) |
| ALMELO | City in the Netherlands, in Overijssel province (6) |
| DRENTHE | Sparsely-populated rural province of the NE Netherlands on the border with Germany; capital, Assen (7) |
| ZWOLLE | Town in the central Netherlands that is the capital of Overijssel province (6) |
| ZUIDERZEE | Shallow sea in central Netherlands dammed in 1932 to form the Waddenzee and Lake IJssel (6,3) |
| TROYES | Industrial city in France noted for its great fairs in the early Middle Ages (6) |
| CAROLINGIAN | -Dynasty, Frankish-dominated empire in western and central Europe in the early Middle Ages (11) |
| ESPORLES | Picturesque mountain village in west Mallorca that was established in the early Middle Ages (8) |
| EDESSA | Early center of Christianity in Mesopotamia |
| EVENSTEVENS | Perfectly matched girl and boy in Netherlands on vacation (4-7) |
| HUN | Barbarous invader and pillager of the early Middle Ages (3) |
| JUNESWOON | Early-middle part of a baseball season when a player's game takes a step back |
| FORTYISH | Following history excitedly in early middle age? (8) |
