| READING | Large town in the south of England, founded in the 8th century (7) |
| RIEVAULXABBEY | First Cistercian monastery in the north of England, founded in 1132 (8,5) |
| AARHUS | Large city in Jutland (pop about 280,000), founded in the 8th century (6) |
| ERLANGEN | Bavarian city (pop about 115,000) founded in the 8th century (8) |
| YORK | Walled city in the North of England, founded by the Romans as Eboracum (4) |
| ANDOVER | Small town in the south of England (pop about 40,000), on the River Anton (7) |
| REIGATE | Small town in the south of England, on the London commuter belt (7) |
| PALERMO | Capital of the Italian island of Sicily, founded by Phoenician traders in the 8th century BC (7) |
| ARSENAL | Football club based in Islington; the first club from the south of England to join the Football League, in 1893 (7) |
| ARUNDEL | Small market town in the south of England (pop about 3,5000), with a restored medieval castle (7) |
| BRISTOL | Lots come up to part of British city in the south of England (7) |
| ISMAILI | Member of a branch of Shiite Muslims that seceded from the main group in the 8th Century |
| RENFREW | Fewer turn up in the Navy, in short, at large town in the west (7) |
| CLONMEL | County town in the south of the Irish Republic (pop 17,000) on the River Suir (7) |
| IRONAGE | Prehistoric period that began in the 8th century BC in Central Europe, but much earlier in Ancient India (4,3) |
| ADRIANI | Pope who reigned for 23 years in the 8th century |
| IPSWICH | Large town in the county of Suffolk (7) |
| PAISLEY | Large town in the west (pop 77,000) (7) |
| ABBASID | Third Caliphate of Islam in the 8th and 9th centuries (7) |
| STAYNER | Town in the South Georgian Bay area of Ontario |
