| ENSENADA | Port called the Cinderella of the Pacific |
| MESSINA | Sicilian port called Zankle, meaning 'scythe', by the Greeks who founded it, owing to the shape of its harbour (7) |
| NOR | Nation with a port called Stavanger: abbr. |
| ELLACINDERS | Comics "Cinderella" of 1925-61 |
| GOLD | The shoe material for the third night of the ball, in the Grimms' retelling of the Cinderella tale (4) |
| DANDINI | Male servant of the Prince in the Cinderella pantomime (7) |
| RAGSTORICHES | After the end of December, stage choirs adapt the Cinderella story (4,2,6) |
| BUTTONS | Servant of Baron Hardup in the Cinderella pantomime, formerly known as Pedro (7) |
| THELASTSLIPPER | Plot device in the Cinderella story? |
| BRADDOCK | James, boxer nicknamed 'the Cinderella Man' (8) |
| BALL | Central event in the Cinderella fairy tale |
| GLASSSLIPPER | Key prop in the Cinderella story |
| JAMESJBRADDOCK | American world heavyweight champion boxer nicknamed 'The Cinderella Man' by Damon Runyon |
| EDDO | Plant of the arum family, also called taro, widely cultivated in the islands of the Pacific for its edible rootstock |
| STOCKTON | Inland port in California, US, on the San Joaquin River; seat of the University of the Pacific |
| OCEANIA | Collective name of the region made up of the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. (7) |
| SOUTHCHINASEA | Part of the Pacific Ocean encompassing an area from the Karimata and Malacca Straits to the Strait of Taiwan (5,5,3) |
| AGANA | Former name of the capital of the Pacific island of Guam (5) |
| BERINGSEA | Sea of the Pacific Ocean which forms part of the divide between Eurasia and the Americas (6,3) |
| OKHOTSK | Sea of -, part of the Pacific surrounded by the East coast of Siberia (7) |
