| INGHAM | Situated on the Herbert River, what town in north-eastern Queensland on the Bruce Highway near Tooba |
| CAIRNS | Name a town in NE Queensland, on the western shore of Trinity Bay (6) |
| BINSCARTH | Manitoba village on the Yellowhead Highway near the Saskatchewan border |
| MACKAY | North-eastern Queensland city (6) |
| WESTBRANCHIA | Site of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum |
| YACHT | In 2021, four fans from Sydney were fined for breaching Covid rules when they sneaked into Queensland on a - - - to watch a Wallabies Test (5) |
| AYR | Queensland Bruce Highway town between Townsville and Bowen (3) |
| BABINDA | Bruce Highway town north of Innisfail (7) |
| GYMPIE | Bruce Highway town north of Nambour (6) |
| VERDUN | Fortified town in north-eastern France that was scene of the longest battle in the First World War (6) |
| YEA | The shared name of which town and river in north-eastern Victoria honours a colonel killed in the Crimean War in the same year the town was founded? (3) |
| KEITH | Situated at the junction of the Duke and Riddoch highways, what town is known as the Lucerne capital of Australia? (5) |
| URALLA | Situated in the New England region of NSW, just south of what town is Thunderbolt's Rock, claimed to be a lookout and hiding place of the bushranger? (6) |
| IDA | A lead and silver-mining town in north-eastern Australia (3) |
| SUEZ | Seaport town in north-eastern Egypt (4) |
| EXHALE | Young Henry in river: 'What should I do after breathing in?' (6) |
| AIRBORNE | Smell servicemen in the river - what's up? (8) |
| NATAL | Port in north-eastern Brazil near the mouth of the Potengi River (5) |
| EAST | ___ River (what the Brooklyn Bridge spans) |
| ROBERT | - the Bruce; believed to have been born and raised in what was Turnberry Castle, the king of Scots depicted by Chris Pine in the film Outlaw King (6) |
