| INTERURBAN | Connecting cities or towns |
| URBAN | Of cities or towns |
| SORT | Type seen in cities or towns (4) |
| INTERSTATE | Fast wide road connecting cities in the US (10) |
| MOATS | Word, from "clods, hills, mounds", for dry or water-filled ditches or fosses surrounding castles, forts or towns (5) |
| STREETS | Public thoroughfare in towns, cities or villages (6) |
| PORT | From the Latin for "haven" or "harbour", a city or town's anchorage; or, a word among mariners for a ship's left side, opposite starboard (4) |
| RUINS | Remains of fallen buildings or towns (5) |
| CAPITALS | Main cities, or block letters (8) |
| PORTS | What are places or towns where ships load and unload (5) |
| WELLS | One of the UK's smallest cities; or, the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds (5) |
| BROADWAY | The main thoroughfare of many cities, or a place to play in New York (8) |
| HISTORICALNOVEL | "A Tale of Two Cities" or "War and Peace," e.g. |
| SACK | The plunder/pillage of a captured city or town; a large bag of burlap, gunny or hessian for flour, grain, potatoes or racing in; a woman's loose-fitting gown; or, a train of silk hanging from the shou |
| SIEGE | Old word for a seat or throne; or, a blockade of a fortress or town (5) |
| RUIN | A destroyed or decayed building or town (4) |
| PARK | Grounds of a stately home; or, a green space in a city or town (4) |
| CENTRE | Filling in a chocolate; hub of a city or town; midpoint; or, a nucleus (6) |
| MAYORAL | Relating to an elected or chosen head of a city or town (7) |
| BOROUGH | Word for a citadel or fortress originally, later a district or town (7) |
