| SALFORD | City north-west of Manchester that houses the Lowry Centre (7) |
| WIGAN | Town in Greater Manchester that houses the monument Mab's Cross (5) |
| OLDHAM | Part of Manchester that sounds suitable for Cockney's poker game? |
| KEENE | City west of Manchester, NH |
| BOULDER | US city north-west of Denver in the Rocky Mountains; home of the main campus of the University of Colorado (7) |
| LATERAN | Building that houses the offices of the Vicariate of Rome, _ Palace (7) |
| LARAMIE | US city that houses the University of Wyoming (7) |
| ROANOKE | City in Virginia, US, that houses the man-made Mill Mountain Star (7) |
| SARATOV | City in southwestern Russia that houses the Radishchev Art Museum (7) |
| CAPITOL | The building that houses the US Congress in Washington, DC |
| SANLUIS | US city midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles that houses the California Polytechnic State Un |
| TVER | Russian city north-west of Moscow (4) |
| ROUEN | City north-west of Paris (5) |
| STOCKPORT | Town in Greater Manchester that was once the centre of the country's hatting industry (9) |
| BURY | Market town in Greater Manchester that was the birthplace of Prime Minister Robert Peel (4) |
| RAMSBOTTOM | Town in Greater Manchester that shares its name with a snake companion of the puppet Sooty (10) |
| ECCLES | Town near Manchester that takes the cake? (6) |
| TRAFFORD | ____ Centre, shopping area in Greater Manchester that opened in 1998 (8) |
| SALE | Town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, that is historically part of Cheshire (4) |
| BONNY | Bight of ?, bay in West Africa also known as the Bight of Biafra that houses the island of Bioko (5) |
