| NERO | Roman emperor infamous for being a tyrant who 'fiddled while Rome burned' (4) |
| CALI | City infamous for its drug cartel |
| RENO | City infamous for its divorce rate |
| THRONEROOM | Where the king sits, by emperor who fiddled with order |
| SINGSING | Maximum-security prison in the village of Ossining, New York, formerly infamous for its harsh conditions (4,4) |
| BACKWARDLOOKING | Give heed! And listen to my tale of the mad tyrant who decreed that all toilets in his realm be installed the wrong way, for he was the ... |
| LLANERO | Everybody rejected boss who fiddled -a cowboy (7) |
| WAYNE | 11, one who fiddled, given one 25 to get under way (5,6) |
| PELEE | Volcano infamous for a 1902 eruption |
| DIONYSIUS | Greek tyrant who opposed Carthage's influence in Sicily and made Syracuse the most powerful of the Western Greek colonies |
| MAO | Tyrant who practiced struggle sessions |
| ENGLAND | Lynndie ___, woman infamous for her role in the abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib (7) |
| BOOTHBY | Robert ___, Conservative politician infamous for his friendship with the Kray twins (7) |
| EUREKA | Stockade in Australia infamous for its gold miners' riot of 1854 (6) |
| SALEM | Which Massachusetts town was infamous for witch trials in 1692? (5) |
| IMELDA | - Marcos, former first lady of the Philippines, infamous for her shoe collection (6) |
| DICTATORS | Tyrants who expect their every word to be written down? (9) |
| RIO | City infamous for its slums |
| THEBITESMOTEL | Aussie stopover infamous for its bedbugs? |
| ENRON | Company infamous for shredding |
