| EKRON | One of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern Canaan |
| GOLIATH | One large oaf originally having setback in one of the five cities of the Philistines (7) |
| AQABA | Port located in southwestern Jordan |
| SOCHI | Port in the western foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, set to be one of the host cities of the 201 |
| PHILISTIA | Group of five cities comprising the land of the Philistines in the Bible (9) |
| PLAIN | Cities of the ___, group of five cities including Sodom and Gomorrah (5) |
| ADULLAM | One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, called "the glory of Israel" by Micah |
| GOMORRAH | In the Old Testament, one of the "cities of the plain" destroyed by God, along with Sodom and two others |
| UJJAIN | In India, one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus (6) |
| NARDO | Town in Apulia that was one of the central cities of the Byzantine Empire |
| LVIV | ____ and Vilnius were the largest cities in the Second Polish Republic that later became cities of the USSR |
| ARAUCARIA | The Guardian pseudonym of the famed FT compiler Cinephile (9) |
| GAZA | One of the five chief cities of the Philistines |
| EWING | Last name of the famed American family whose lives we followed in 1980s classic Dallas and its more recent remake (5) |
| TRESCO | One of the Scilly Isles, home to the famed subtropical Abbey Garden (6) |
| SODOM | One of the "cities of the plain" |
| PORTLAND | Name shared by the most populous cities of the US states of Maine and Oregon (8) |
| HARLEM | Site of the famed Apollo Theatre |
| DEFAMATION | Rahul Gandhi, a member of the famed Indian family, was controversially removed from his parliamentary seat on March 23 for this crime against Prime Minister Modi |
| BURROUGHS | Beat Generation author who wrote the 1981 novel Cities Of The Red Night, William S. _ (9) |
