| ALBENA | Purpose-built resort in Bulgaria on the Black Sea (6) |
| VARNA | Port and resort of NE Bulgaria on the Black Sea, once known as Stalin (5) |
| RUSE | City in Bulgaria on the Danube near the border with Romania (4) |
| PLOVDIV | City in Bulgaria on the Maritsa River (7) |
| SORRENTO | Newly-built resort on site south of Naples |
| NEWSPAPER | Recently-built resort a media outlet (9) |
| MASALA | Highest peak of the Balkan Peninsula, in Bulgaria in the Rila Mountains (6) |
| FLUMES | Slides in the form of long and winding tubes with streams of water running through them, descending into a purpose-built pool (6) |
| STRUMA | River in Bulgaria which flows to the Aegean (6) |
| DORNEY | Purpose-built rowing lake used at the 2012 Olympics |
| ARRIVE | Reach part of me Archar river in Bulgaria (6) |
| PUEBLO | Disgruntled purist leaves purpose-built settlement populated by Native Americans? |
| ATHENS | Capital in Bulgaria, then: Sofia |
| PALMANOVA | One of the first purpose-built tourist resorts in Mallorca, located in the Calvia municipality in the south-west of the island (5,4) |
| NORMANCROSS | --- --- Prison, the world's first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, built in Cambridgeshire in 1796-97 (6,5) |
| BROOKLANDS | The world's first purpose-built motor racing circuit, which opened in 1907 in Surrey |
| MONZA | The oldest purpose-built race circuit in mainland Europe, and still operational. (5) |
| ELIASCANETTI | German-language author born in Bulgaria, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981 (5,7) |
| CHAMBERS | George III's architect who designed the pagoda and orangery at Kew Gardens for Princess Augusta and the Royal Academy's first purpose-built home, Somerset House (8) |
| BELUGA | (and 3 Down) Expensive food found in Bulgaria cave, perhaps? (6,6) |