| UCONN | School 50 miles west of Brown, informally |
| RUGBY | Public school's 50/50 to make the game (5,6) |
| SEVENS | Public school's 50/50 to make the game (5,6) |
| CORINTH | City about 50 miles west of Athens |
| KSTATE | Univ. about 50 miles west of Topeka |
| IVIES | Yale and Brown, informally |
| KSU | Sch. 50 miles west of 36-Across |
| TATER | Source of hash browns, informally |
| OMAGH | Northern Ireland town approximately 68 miles west of Belfast and 34 miles south of Derry (5) |
| ANTAKYA | Turkish city about 60 miles west of Aleppo, near ruins of a major Greco-Roman city |
| OSTEND | Port city in West Flanders, around 15 miles west of Bruges (6) |
| STKILDA | Situated 41 miles west of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, an archipelago evacuated in 1930 which is the remotest part of the British Isles (2,5) |
| ESCOMB | Village in County Durham on the River Wear, about 1.5 miles west of Bishop Auckland, that has one of the oldest Anglo-Saxon churches in England |
| ISLAY | Southernmost island of the Inner Hebrides, approximately 16 miles west of the Kintyre peninsula (5) |
| HIGHROCKS | Geological Site of Special Scientific Interest two miles west of Tunbridge Wells, with a station on the Spa Valley Railway |
| ANDROS | Largest island of the Bahamas, an archipelago lying 25 miles west of New Providence (6) |
| RENFREW | Town 6 miles west of Glasgow known as the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" |
| BORODINO | Bloody battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought 70 miles west of Moscow on September 7 1812 |
| EASTLYME | Connecticut town 10 miles west of New London |
| ADELAIDE | Capital 600 miles west of Canberra |
