| STOCKTON | Inland port in California, US, on the San Joaquin River; seat of the University of the Pacific |
| TOMS | ___ River (seat of New Jersey's Ocean County) |
| BERKELEY | City on San Francisco Bay that is the seat of the University of California (8) |
| YOSEMITE | ___ National Park, World Heritage Site in California, US in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (8) |
| ANNARBOR | Seat of the University of Michigan, US (3.5) |
| DORTMUND | Industrial city and inland port in Nord Rhine-Westphalia (8) |
| CRIMINAL | Being sought by police, I finally quit port in California |
| SANDIEGO | City and port in California (3,5) |
| TERESINA | Inland port in NE Brazil |
| BAKERSFIELD | City in California, US, at the southern end of the San Joaquin valley associated with the oil indust |
| FRESNO | City in California, US, in the centre of the San Joaquin Valley |
| OP | The priests of the university of the Santo Tomas (Philippines) are of this religious order |
| GOOLE | Inland port in the East Riding of Yorkshire at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Don |
| TACOMA | City and seaport in Washington, US; the seat of the University of Puget Sound (6) |
| TUCSON | U.S. city that is the seat of the University of Arizona founded in 1885 (6) |
| LAHORE | City in North East Pakistan, location of the University of the Punjab (6) |
| SUVA | Main campus site of the University of the South Pacific |
| ROSARIO | Inland port in Argentina that is the second largest city in the country (7) |
| IQUITOS | Inland port in northeast Peru, on the Amazon, 2,300 miles from the Atlantic (7) |
| HOUSTON | Inland port in SE Texas, US; site of the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center (7) |