| ALEPPO | City in northwestern Syria located at one end of the Silk Road (6) |
| RIDEAUHALL | Official residence of the Governor General of Canada, located at 1 Sussex Drive, Ottawa (6,4) |
| YOYOMA | Leader of the Silk Road Ensemble |
| CATHAY | Land of the Silk Road |
| OVIEDO | City in northwestern Spain that is capital of the region of Asturias (6) |
| BREMEN | Commercial and industrial city in northwestern Germany with a major port on the River Weser |
| UZBEKISTAN | Lonely Planet's new Best in Travel 2024 offers suggestions in five categories, including this pick, in COUNTRIES, where "the cultural hubs of Samarkand, Bu khara, and Khiva still evoke the era of the |
| KENORA | City in northwestern Ontario near the Manitoba border |
| TALARA | City in northwestern Peru (6) |
| TABRIZ | City in northwestern Iran |
| MEADOW | ___ Lake (City in northwestern Saskatchewan) |
| GOBI | Desert that contains a lot of the journey of the Silk Road |
| XIAN | Chinese city that was the starting point of the Silk Road |
| DAMASK | Originally hand-woven and traded on the Silk Road, a sumptuous brocadelike textile created on a Jacquard loom since its advent in 1804 (6) |
| ASIA | Much of the Silk Road is in it |
| POLO | Traveller whose adventures along the Silk Road and at the court of Kublai Khan are described in Il Milione (The Million), or Book of the Marvels of the World (4) |
| CAEN | City in northwestern France, final resting place of William the Conqueror (4) |
| ORLEANS | City in northwestern France, scene of Joan of Arc's first military victory against English forces (7) |
| MACCLESFIELD | A market town in Cheshire, a former centre of the silk industry (12) |
| MAHABAD | City in northwestern Iran whose name means "place of moon" |
