| BRNO | City in the Czech Republic; historical capital of Moravia |
| ANGERS | Historical capital of Anjou where Cointreau is distilled, location of the Apocalypse tapestry in a 13th-century castle of the same name (6) |
| ROUEN | Rotomagus to the Romans, this French city is the historical capital of the Duchy of Normandy (5) |
| TROYES | French town in northeastern France that was the historical capital of the Champagne region (6) |
| TERCEIRA | Second-most populous island of the Azores, home to the historical capital of Angra do Heroismo (8) |
| OSTRAVA | City in the Czech Republic near the junction of the Oder and Ostravice rivers (7) |
| LIBEREC | City in the Czech Republic, a centre of the German Sudeten movement in 1938 (7) |
| UDINE | Historical capital of Friuli, Italy (5) |
| NANTES | Historical capital of Brittany (6) |
| PRAGUE | Historical capital of Bohemia (6) |
| PLZEN | City in the Czech Republic also known as Pilsen; a 2015 European Capital of Culture (5) |
| PILSNER | Type of pale beer named after a city in the Czech Republic (7) |
| PILS | Pale lager named after a city in the Czech Republic (4) |
| CZECHREPUBLIC | Which country is comprised of the historic regions of Bohemia, Moravia and part of Silesia? (5,8) |
| CUZCO | South American "Historical Capital" |
| FREUD | Sigmund ___, Moravia-born psychiatrist who died in London in 1939 (5) |
| BOHEMIA | Historical Czech region near Moravia |
| CONTEMPT | English title of 1954 Alberto Moravia novel Il disprezzo (8) |
| AGOSTINO | 1941 novel by Alberto Moravia that was banned by the Italian Fascist regime |
| BRENDEL | Alfred, Moravia-born pianist whose American debut was in 1963 (7) |
