| AMALFI | Commune in Salerno, the main town on a famously picturesque coast (6) |
| CHORA | Name given to the main town on many Greek islands when the name of the island itself is the same as the name of the principal town |
| ROTHESAY | The main town on the Isle of Bute (8) |
| DORSET | Prehistoric peoples were active on the chalk uplands of this area. There are abundant monuments from the Neolithic Period, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. One monument, Maiden Castle, was the main town in R |
| ASSISI | Italian town on a slope of Monte Subasio |
| MANILA | Filipino venue of a famously thrilling 1975 boxing bout (6) |
| ISLEOF | Island off the northern coast of Kent whose main town is Sheerness |
| BRUNEI | Land of a famously rich sultan (6) |
| OAMARU | Main town in Waitaki District (6) |
| NASSAU | Main town of the Bahamas (6) |
| BARNSTAPLE | The main town of North Devon, on the River Taw (10) |
| SOUTHENDONSEA | Unfashionable London suburb's flanked by the main town in Essex (8-2-3) |
| RECITAL | About to get to the main town without a piano concert (7) |
| ORKNEYISLANDS | Archipelago of which Kirkwall is the main town (6,7) |
| CABOOLTURE | Coming from the Gabi word for carpet snake, what is the coastal town, on a river of the same name, north of Brisbane? (10) |
| ALDERNEY | Separated from the French coast by a hazardous tidal race, the Channel Island with the capital and main town St Anne (8) |
| HUMPTYDUMPTY | A famously off-the-wall type, Tory leader stops sulky MP cutting tax? (6,6) |
| LISTENER | The ---, defunct magazine with a famously complex crossword that now runs in The Times |
| FOMO | Reason to hit the town on a Friday night instead of staying home in your p.j.'s |
| WATERFRONT | Part of a town on a river, etc |
