| INDRE | French department with Chateauroux as its capital |
| COTEDOR | French department with capital Dijon |
| DORDOGNE | French department with its prefecture in Perigueux (8) |
| SALUT | "Cheerio," in Chateauroux |
| WISSA | DR Congo, Brentford, 2015-16 Chateauroux, 2016-18 Angers and 2018-21 Lorient attacker (5) |
| YOANE | DR Congo, Brentford, 2015-16 Chateauroux, 2016-18 Angers and 2018-21 Lorient attacker (5) |
| BOUCHESDURHONE | Department of France with Marseille as its capital |
| ARUBA | Which island, off the coast of Venezuela, is an autonomous division of the Netherlands, has Dutch as its national language and Oranjestad as its capital? (5) |
| UMBRIA | Landlocked Italian region with Perugia as its capital (6) |
| ISLEOFMAN | Crown Dependency with Douglas as its capital city (4,2,3) |
| PAPUA | --- New Guinea, country with Port Moresby as its capital city (5) |
| UKRAINE | New East European republic with Kiev as its capital |
| HESSE | German state with Wiesbaden as its capital |
| TUVALU | Polynesian island nation with Funafuti as its capital (6) |
| MINN | US state with Saint Paul as its capital: Abbr. |
| CATALONIA | Region of Spain with Barcelona as its capital (9) |
| NSW | Australian state with Sydney as its capital: Abbr. |
| NAGALAND | Indian state with Kohima as its capital |
| BULG | Country with Sofia as its capital for short |
| ANGUILLA | Caribbean island with The Valley as its capital (8) |
