| LOMBARDY | Italian region, capital Milan (8) |
| PIEDMONT | Italian region, capital Turin (8) |
| CAMPANIA | Italian region, capital Naples (8) |
| EMILIAROMAGNA | North Italian region, capital Bologna (6-7) |
| TUSCANY | Italian region, capital Florence (7) |
| UMBRIAN | Native of an Italian region, capital Perugia (7) |
| UMBRIA | Italian region, capital Perugia (6) |
| VENETO | Italian region, capital Venice (6) |
| ANDALUSIA | Spanish region, capital Seville (9) |
| CANTABRIA | Spanish region, capital Santander (9) |
| BOSNIA | Former Yugoslav region, capital Sarajevo (6) |
| HOMER | Bard in region's capital |
| NAIROBI | Excellent plunder in some British region's capital |
| PROVIDENCE | Papers taken into French region's capital (10) |
| MAYENNE | Department of NW France in the Pays de la Loire region; capital, Laval (7) |
| ESSONNE | French department south of Paris in the Ile-de-France region; capital: Evry (7) |
| GIRONDE | Largest mainland department of France, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region; capital, Bordeaux (7) |
| SAVOIE | French department in Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region, capital Chambery (6) |
| LOIRE | Department of E central France in the Rhene-Alpes region; capital, Saint Etienne (5) |
| CHER | 15th-largest by area of the 101 departments of France, in the Centre-Val de Loire region; capital, Bourges (4) |
