| ARNDALE | Shopping centre in Manchester that opened in 1975 (7) |
| TRAFFORD | ____ Centre, shopping area in Greater Manchester that opened in 1998 (8) |
| ACHORUSLINE | Stage musical about dancers on Broadway with music by Marvin Hamlisch that opened in 1975 (1,6,4) |
| WIGAN | Town and former coal-mining centre in Manchester (5) |
| CHETHAMS | Private music school in Manchester that was established in 1969 (8) |
| COLDFEET | ITV series about couples in Manchester that starred James Nesbitt and Fay Ripley (4,4) |
| CENTRE | Middle, in Manchester |
| SALFORD | City north-west of Manchester that houses the Lowry Centre (7) |
| SMALLER | Relatively minor shopping centre in Home Counties by river (7) |
| SMARTLY | Sly about shopping centre in a stylish way (7) |
| LAKESIDE | Out-of-town shopping centre in Essex that opened in 1990 (8) |
| STOCKPORT | Town in Greater Manchester that was once the centre of the country's hatting industry (9) |
| OLDHAM | Town in Greater Manchester that is the birthplace of physicist Brian Cox (6) |
| SALE | Town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, that is historically part of Cheshire (4) |
| MALLOW | Shopping centre in New York has nothing for women in Cork (6) |
| MEATBALL | Consume beef at first in shopping centre, in this form? (8) |
| RAMSBOTTOM | Town in Greater Manchester that shares its name with a snake companion of the puppet Sooty (10) |
| BURY | Market town in Greater Manchester that was the birthplace of Prime Minister Robert Peel (4) |
| ASMALLFORTUNE | Since shopping centre, in place of air, made quite a bit of money (1,5,7) |
| SMALLDIVIDEND | The minor investor will get this from self-starter at shopping centre in New York - and that's a bonus! (5,8) |
