| VALLADOLID | Provincial capital of Castile-Leon (10) |
| SALAMANCA | Spanish city on the River Tormes in the Castile-Leon province (9) |
| BURGOS | The capital of Castile when it separated from Leon |
| TOLEDO | City in central Spain on the River Tagus; the capital of Castile 1087-1560 (6) |
| DARWIN | Provincial capital of the Northern Territory of Australia (6) |
| CHARLOTTETOWN | Provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, Canada, named after the wife of George III (13) |
| WALCHEREN | Middelburg is the provincial capital of this former island at the mouth of the Scheldt estuary (9) |
| ENNA | Provincial capital of Sicily |
| EDMONTON | Provincial capital of Alberta, Canada |
| VENICE | The provincial capital of Veneto (6) |
| LONDINIUM | Provincial capital of Roman Britain from AD60 onwards (9) |
| STJOHNS | Provincial capital of Newfoundland and Labrador (2,5) |
| DAMASKROSE | The rose of Castile (Rosa x damascena) is also known as this (6,4) |
| LAHORE | Provincial capital of Punjab in western Pakistan; the second-largest city in the country (6) |
| ARLON | Provincial capital of Luxembourg in SE Belgium, in the Ardennes region (5) |
| PINAR | -- del Rio, provincial capital of Cuba associated with the tobacco trade (5) |
| JOHANNESBURG | The largest city in South Africa; the provincial capital of Gauteng (12) |
| WINNIPEG | Provincial capital of Manitoba in south central Canada, known as the 'Gateway to the West' (8) |
| INTENSITIES | Spoke in provincial capitals, of passions. (11) |
| MAASTRICHT | Dutch provincial capital, the location of the Bonnefanten fine arts museum |
