| CONWY | North Wales town with a 13th century castle (5) |
| HARLECH | Welsh coastal town with a 13th-century castle |
| BRIDGEND | South Wales town with a Ford engine plant and Sony's UK Technology Centre |
| EBBWVALE | South Wales town with Town and Parkway stations (4,4) |
| FYVIE | Village in Aberdeenshire housing a 13th-century castle (5) |
| BEAUMARIS | Resort on the island of Anglesey with a 13th-century castle |
| ODIHAM | Historic village in the Hart district of Hampshire with the ruins of a 13th-century castle (6) |
| ANGERS | Historical capital of Anjou where Cointreau is distilled, location of the Apocalypse tapestry in a 13th-century castle of the same name (6) |
| TINTAGEL | Ruins of a 13th-century castle above Merlin's Cave in Cornwall; the legendary birthplace of King Arthur according to Geoffrey of Monmouth (8) |
| SIENA | Walled city in Tuscany, Italy that houses a 13th-century university (5) |
| DUART | Thirteenth-century castle on the Isle of Mull, seat of the MacLean clan (5) |
| LEON | Provincial capital in north-west Spain (pop about 450,000) with a 13th century Gothic cathedral (4) |
| IONA | Island with a 13th-century cathedral |
| FLINT | Stone from North Wales town (5) |
| MOULD | Distinctive style in North Wales town, it's said (5) |
| EXETER | City in south-west England (pop 130,000), with a 13th century cathedral (6) |
| DOUNE | Town on the river Teith, near Stirling, with a well-restored 14th century castle (5) |
| ROTHESAY | Island town (pop about 5,000), with a ruined 13th century castle (8) |
| DROGO | 20th-century castle in Devon (5) |
| HOTEL | Building usually without a 13th floor |