| KERKRADE | City in the Netherlands on the German border which is one of the oldest coal-mining centres in Europe (8) |
| NEWWORLD | British newspaper hacker missing leaders to save one's face with article in that order outside Europ |
| CHOCOLATE | In the 1500s this sinfully delicious product, originally from South America, was introduced to Europ |
| APPACHIA | Coal-mining center |
| RICA | Villa ___, gold-mining center in 19th-century Georgia |
| EBBWVALE | Former coal mining centre in South Wales (4,4) |
| WIGAN | Town and former coal-mining centre in Manchester (5) |
| RHONDDA | Former coal-mining centre in South Wales (7) |
| DEVENTER | City in Overijssel, the Netherlands on the River Ijssel; an early centre of printing (8) |
| ROTTERDAM | Large port city of the Netherlands, on the Nieuwe Maas river (9) |
| SUWANNEE | US river rising in the Okefenokee Swamp on the Georgia-Florida border which flows to the Gulf of Mex |
| ARNHEM | City in the E. Netherlands on the Rhine, scene of a World War II battle (6) |
| DELFT | City of the SW Netherlands on the Schie River between Rotterdam and The Hague, noted for its pottery (5) |
| HEERLEN | Industrial city in Limburg, Netherlands; a major coal mining centre from the late nineteenth century to the early 1970s (7) |
| SWALE | River in North Yorkshire, rising in the Pennines nearthe Cumbria border, which joins the Ure to form the Ouse (5) |
| DRENTHE | Sparsely-populated rural province of the NE Netherlands on the border with Germany; capital, Assen (7) |
| ESSEQUIBO | River in Guyana rising near the Brazilian border which flows north to the Atlantic (9) |
| NIJMEGEN | Ancient Dutch city (pop about 170,000), close to the German border, founded in 98 AD (8) |
| MAGINOT | French fortifications on the German border; _ Line (7) |
| ALSACE | French region on the German border (6) |
