| EMONA | Roman name for the capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana (5) |
| OSLO | Capital of Slovenia, Ljubljana obvious initially (4) |
| LJUBLJANA | The capital of Slovenia (9) |
| DIANA | Roman name for the goddess of the hunt (5) |
| AQUAE | ____ Sulis, Roman name for the city of Bath |
| TOLAR | Standard monetary unit of Slovenia before the adoption of the Euro in 2007, divided into 100 stotin (5) |
| NAPLES | English name for the capital of the Italian region of Campania (6) |
| BANGALORE | Old name for the capital of the state of Karnataka in India (9) |
| ZARAGOZA | Spanish name for the capital of Aragon; location of the AljaferA-a Moorish palace (8) |
| DIEGO | Italian cyclist; 2017 Presidential Tour of Turkey, 2019 Tour of Slovenia and 2020 Tour de Luxembourg winner (5) |
| NAPOLI | Italian name for the capital of Campania; a city that evolved from the Ancient Greek settlement Part |
| CALCUTTA | Former name for the capital of West Bengal state, on the Hooghly River (8) |
| EARTH | Land where there's poverty, except for the capital (5) |
| KABUL | Unlikable, Neil leaves for the capital (5) |
| TSINAN | What, along with Chinan, was one of the former names for the capital of China's Shandong province? ( |
| EDO | Former name for the capital of Japan |
| IRAKLION | Greek name for the capital of Crete (8) |
| SEVILLA | Spanish name for the capital of Andalusia |
| KISHINEV | Russian name for the capital of Moldova |
| ANKARA | Modern name for the capital of ancient Galatia |
