| HAWES | He was touring... Yorkshire town, home of Wensleydale cheese (5) |
| ESCHEWED | Shunned a bit of Wensleydale cheese cooked by daughter (8) |
| AWESOME | Boss's Yorkshire town house, always hard to ignore (7) |
| ORONO | Town, home of the University of Maine (5) |
| BLAIR | Old name of a Maryland town, home of an apparent murderer and kidnapper in a 1999 supernatural horror film |
| SIENA | Tuscan town, home of the painter Duccio |
| YORKS | Abbreviated name of a historic county hailing culinary specialities including baked batter pudding, curd tart, fat rascal, ginger parkin, Pontefract cake and Wensleydale (5) |
| INURE | Get hardened like Wensleydale swimmers? (5) |
| OGEMA | South-of-regina town, home to the Southern Prairie Railway of tourist train trips in Saskatchewan |
| DAVOS | Swiss town, home to the annual World Economic Forum (5) |
| LEEDS | 1908-1994 Huddersfield Town home (5) |
| MELTONMOWBRAY | Leicestershire town, home of the pork pie and one of six homes of Stilton cheese (6,7) |
| HUISH | ..... Park, Yeovil Town home (5) |
| STOWE | Vermont tourist town, home to the Trapp Family Lodge |
| EGHAM | Surrey town home to Royal Holloway college |
| BANFF | Town home to Canada's oldest national park |
| WIGAN | Greater Manchester town home to England’s most successful rugby league side |
| HOTEL | Private town house in France may be a put-up place (5) |
| HORTA | Architect who designed the art nouveau town house Hotel Solvay (5) |
| THIEF | Initially town house inexpensive, essentially for a nicker? (5) |