| TERAI | Region of subtropical lowlands in the foothills of the Himalayas (5) |
| INDIAN | - Summers ; set in the foothills of the Himalayas but filmed in Penang, a television drama based on the final days of the British Empire's colonial rule (6) |
| RAWALPINDI | City in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern Pakistan (10) |
| GLENS | Lowlands in the Highlands |
| EVERGLADES | A natural region of subtropical wetlands in southern Florida starting near Orlando with the Kissimmee River |
| SAVANNAH | An area of subtropical grassland, also a city in Georgia, U.S.A.; ___ 19, a family-run cocktail lounge in Culcheth, Warrington (8) |
| COMO | Y-shaped lake in the foothills of the Rhaetian Alps of Lombardy, site of the town Bellagio on the water's edge (4) |
| BHUTAN | Meaning "land of the thunder dragon", landlocked kingdom in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas with the capital Thimphu (6) |
| TEHRAN | Capital of Iran, in the NW in the foothills of the Elburz Mountains (6) |
| BADENBADEN | Popular German spa town in the foothills of the Black Forest (5-5) |
| SALZGITTER | Industrial city in Lower Saxony in the foothills of the Harz Mountains (10) |
| POLLENCA | Town in northern Majorca in the foothills of the Serra da Tramuntana mountains (8) |
| PAMPLONA | City in North Spain, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, famous for its annual bull runs (8) |
| UTRECHT | Town in the foothills of the Balele Mountains |
| OCA | Veggie grown in the foothills of the Andes |
| GRANADA | Andalusian city in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada |
| PERPIGNAN | French town in the foothills of the Pyrenees (9) |
| PERM | Russian industrial city in the foothills of the Ural Mountains |
| SOCHI | Port in the western foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, set to be one of the host cities of the 201 |
| OAKUM | Strand of rope obtained from tree on the foothills of Kathmandu and Sikkim (5) |
