| MANTUA | Italian town in which Verdi's Rigoletto is set (6) |
| HUGO | Writer who was a source for Verdi's "Rigoletto" |
| LADONNAEMOBILE | Aria from Verdi's Rigoletto |
| DONNA | La ___ e Mobile, aria from Verdi's Rigoletto (5) |
| ASSISI | St. Francis was born in this Italian town in 1182 (6) |
| RAGUSA | Italian town in Sicily, southwest of Syracuse (6) |
| TIVOLI | Italian town in the ascendant apart from close to collapse - I love it (6) |
| AMALFI | Italian town in Campania, on the Gulf of Salerno, whose cathedral contains relics of Saint Andrew, brought from Constantinople |
| DORSET | Bournemouth is the largest town in which English county? (6) |
| PENRYN | Cornish town in which a watchmaker, John Thomas, started rugby in 1872 (6) |
| SLOUGH | Town in which BBC sitcom The Office was set (6) |
| DENTON | Fictional Midlands town in which the TV series A Touch Of Frost was set (6) |
| NELSON | Lancashire town in which antiques expert Eric Knowles was born (6) |
| EMMAUS | Town in which, according to the Gospel of Luke, the risen Jesus appeared to two of his disciples (6) |
| ALAMOS | New Mexico town in which the atomic (1945) and hydrogen (1952) bombs were developed (3,6) |
| STIVES | Cornish seaside town in which a branch of the Tate Gallery opened in 1993 (2,4) |
| BETHEL | Town in which Woodstock took place |
| DARIEN | Connecticut town in which some "Stepford Wives" scenes were filmed |
| WOKING | Surrey town in which Paul Weller was born |
| ASCOLIPICENO | Italian town in the Marche region (6,6) |
