| KASBAH | North African fortress, in one spelling |
| CASBAH | Graduate is in the money in North African fortress (6) |
| EMEER | In one spelling, an Arabian ruler or chieftain |
| WOAH | Response of shock, in one spelling |
| TEENIE | Wee, in one spelling |
| KORAN | Holy book, in one spelling |
| ENGRAINS | Firmly establishes, in one spelling |
| MORTICE | Tenon's partner, in one spelling |
| GAYETY | Merriment, in one spelling |
| CASTLE | Fortress; in Palma, Mallorca the only round one in Spain is called Bellver (6) |
| BASTILLE | French 14c fortress in Paris destroyed in 1789 (8) |
| DRYSLWYN | ___ Castle, fortress in Carmarthenshire besieged in 1287 (8) |
| CASTILE | I am imprisoned in a fortress in spain (7) |
| LEEDS | ___ Castle, fortress in Kent, originally built in 1119 (5) |
| FOTHERINGHAY | ___ Castle, fortress in Northamptonshire where Mary, Queen of Scots was executed in 1587 (12) |
| DOVERCASTLE | Medieval fortress in Kent founded in the 11th Century (5,6) |
| CAERNARFON | ___ Castle, fortress in northwest Wales first built in the late 11th century (10) |
| AEON | One spelling for one billion years |
| RUANDA | One spelling of a landlocked African republic |
| WRACKS | ___ one's brain (thinks hard, per one spelling) |
