| CIRENCESTER | Gloucestershire town, site of a Roman amphitheatre |
| STOWONTHEWOLD | Gloucestershire town, site of the final battle of the first English Civil War (4-2-3-4) |
| ASCOLI | - Piceno, Italian town, site of a massacre of all its Roman citizens in the Social War of 90 B.C. (6) |
| MILDENHALL | Suffolk town, site of a major hoard of fourth-century Roman silver tableware discovered in 1942 |
| SHEERNESS | Isle of Sheppey town, site of a former naval dockyard |
| ARENA | From the Latin meaning "sand", the centre of a Roman amphitheatre for gladiatorial combat or the hunt of exotic animals by venators (5) |
| EURIPUS | Ditch or canal round the arena of a Roman amphitheatre (7) |
| COLOSSEUM | Souls come out of a Roman amphitheatre (9) |
| LODI | Italian town, site of a 1796 Napoleon victory |
| DIDCOT | Oxfordshire town, site of a large natural gas power station (6) |
| ARNHEM | Dutch town, site of a 1944 WWII battle (6) |
| ALDERSHOT | Hampshire town, site of a large military camp (9) |
| PRESTONPANS | East Lothian mining town, site of a 1745 battle (11) |
| OTTERBURN | Northumberland town, site of a 1388 battle (9) |
| ASWAN | Egyptian town, site of a dam (5) |
| MONMOUTH | Welsh town, site of a castle where Henry V was born in 1386 (8) |
| CASSINO | Italian town, site of a World War II battle in 1944 (7) |
| ARLES | Southern French town with a Roman amphitheatre |
| NIMES | French city with a Roman amphitheatre (5) |
| MEISSEN | German town site of the first fine-quality porcelain to be produced outside of China? (7) |
