| MEXICOCITY | Modern name of the settlement conquered by Cortes in 1521 (6,4) |
| AZTEC | Member of a state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortes in 1521, followed by an oyster gem - as in the cultivar of Choisya x dewitteana (5,5) |
| PEARL | Member of a state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortes in 1521, followed by an oyster gem - as in the cultivar of Choisya x dewitteana (5,5) |
| COMPROMISE | The settlement of a dispute by concessions on both sides (10) |
| BATH | English town with the hot springs and the remains of the settlement of Aquae Sulis built by the wate |
| WILDFOWL | - & Wetlands Trust; modern name of the charity founded in Slimbridge by ornithologist Sir Peter Scott in 1946 (8) |
| AZTECS | Native American people dominant in Mexico until its conquest by Cortes in 1519 |
| DHAKA | What is the (modern) name of the capital of Bangladesh? (5) |
| ANZIO | Modern name of the ancient Italian town Antium, birthplace of the emperors Caligula and Nero (5) |
| PATNA | Modern name of the Indian city known as Pataliputra in ancient times and Azimabad during the Mughal period (5) |
| CADILLAC | Antoine de la Mothe ?, founder of the settlement that became the US city of Detroit, Michigan (8) |
| JAFFA | Modern name of the ancient city Joppa, from which the biblical prophet Jonah set sail (5) |
| BODRUM | Modern name of Halicarnassus in ancient Turkey, whose Mausoleum was one of the Seven Wonders of the World (6) |
| DOVER | Modern name of the old Roman port Dubris (5) |
| BLACKSEA | Modern name of the ancient Pontus Euxinus, lying between SE Europe and Anatolia (5,3) |
| TOWN | Resident owned part of the settlement (4) |
| ANDAMAN | The ... Islands are a group in the Bay of Bengal that include the settlement of Port Blair (7) |
| MARTINLUTHER | German leader of the Protestant Reformation excommunicated and outlawed by the Diet of Worms in 1521 |
| ASWAN | Modern name of Swenett, the southern frontier town of Ancient Egypt |
| ROMAN | The helmet on the Billingford village sign represents the ... settlement that once existed here (5) |
