| NEIGHBOURHOOD | District of people (13) |
| DUMBARTONOAKS | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations |
| ARGYLLANDBUTE | Administrative district of Scotland (6,3,4) |
| HAVERGALBRIAN | Composer born in Dresden (a district of Stoke-on-Trent) |
| HOOKOFHOLLAND | Small Dutch town, a district of Rotterdam, which has run a ferry service to Britain for 120 years (4,2,7) |
| KIDDERMINSTER | Town in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire in which postal pioneer Rowland Hill was born |
| SITKA | - Spruce, evergreen tree named after a former capital of the Department of Alaska and District of Al |
| PARISH | District of capital, heart of Baghdad (6) |
| GOWER | ? Peninsula, district of Wales designated Britain's first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1956 |
| CHARINGCROSS | District of London in the City of Westminster housing a railway station (7,5) |
| LEFTBANK | District of Paris pulled out of by financial establishment (4,4) |
| MONTMARTRE | A district of Northern Paris, on a hill above the Seine, home of many artists during the Belle Epoque (10) |
| COVENTGARDEN | A district of Westminster, location of the Royal Opera House (6,6) |
| MONTPARNASSE | A district of South Paris, on the left bank of the Seine (12) |
| EALING | District of London is getting better for some of its residents? |
| SOHO | A district of London's West End in the City of Westminster, chiefly known for its restaurants and clubs (4) |
| DC | District of Columbia, the place appropriated for the white house of the USA President and other federal government offices |
| EASTHAM | District of the London Borough of Newham (4,3) |
| MEDOC | A fine red wine from a district of South West France on the left bank of the Gironde estuary (5) |
| WALTHAMSTOW | District of East London that is the birthplace of England football captain Harry Kane (11) |