| VIENTIANE | One Venetian travels to capital (9) |
| FLIES | Travels to capitals of France, Luxembourg, Italy, Estonia and Spain (5) |
| VIVALDI | Oral exam with student having last word on one Venetian composer (7) |
| MARCOPOLO | Venetian travel writer, who may (or may not) have served Kublai Khan, d. 1324 (5,4) |
| ROAM | Travel to capital, say (4) |
| NEWDELHI | When idle, travel to capital (3,5) |
| SIGHTSEER | One who travels to see places of interest (9) |
| EINDHOVEN | When in Devon. he travels to city (9) |
| SANDFLIES | Society also travels to find insects |
| NOTREDAME | End Metro travels to take in a large building (5,4) |
| REFUSENIK | Ulster gets to say no first to capital from Kuwaiti dissident (9) |
| AERODROME | Airfield's at point in road out to capital (9) |
| HAIRPIECE | Deceptive addition to capital growth (9) |
| ASCENSION | ... in case son shifts to capital (9) |
| AMSTERDAM | Now and again setter rode to capital (9) |
| CAPARISON | Accountant goes to capital on horsy outfit (9) |
| VELODROME | Loved playing next to capital arena (9) |
| MOGADISHU | But his mind was gloomy, regularly, after returning to capital (9) |
| UPPERCASE | Of or relating to capital letters (5,4) |
| ISLAMABAD | Can priest be off to capital? |