| OVERIJSSEL | Province of the eastern Netherlands; capital Zwolle (10) |
| EDE | Town of the eastern Netherlands |
| ARNHEM | City in the Eastern Netherlands; site of a Second World War battle (6) |
| MAASTRICHT | City in the Netherlands, capital of the province of Limburg (10) |
| ASSEN | City in northeast Netherlands: capital of the province of Drenthe (5) |
| HAGUE | The capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands, The _ (5) |
| HAARLEM | City in the Netherlands, capital of North Holland province (7) |
| ZWOLLE | Town in the central Netherlands, capital of Overijssel province (6) |
| ZEELAND | Province in the Netherlands, capital Middelburg (7) |
| APELDOORN | City in the Gelderland province of the central Netherlands; site of the Het Loo royal palace (9) |
| LEINSTER | Which province of the Republic of Ireland includes the county of Kildare and has Dublin as its capital? (8) |
| ANTWERP | City in Belgium, capital of the province of the same name (7) |
| IJSSEL | River in the Netherlands, along which Hansa towns including Hasselt, Kampen and Zwolle are situated (6) |
| HENGELO | Textile centre in eastern Netherlands (7) |
| NIJMEGEN | Industrial town in eastern Netherlands (8) |
| UTRECHT | Bicycle-friendly city and birthplace of Miffy creator Dick Bruna in the central Netherlands, capital |
| AMSTERDAM | The World Council of Churches was established at a meeting in 1948 in this Netherlands capital |
| DRENTHE | Sparsely-populated rural province of the NE Netherlands on the border with Germany; capital, Assen (7) |
| CONNAUGHT | Anglicised name of the province of the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo (9) |
| GRONINGEN | Northernmost mainland province of the Netherlands, bordering the German state of Lower Saxony (9) |
