| BADEN | Spa town in the Black Forest (5-5) |
| BADENBADEN | Popular German spa town in the foothills of the Black Forest (5-5) |
| CHELTENHAM | Town near Gloucester that became a fashionable spa town in the 19th century (10) |
| LEAMINGTON | Royal spa town in Warwickshire (10) |
| DANUBE | Rising in the Black Forest and flowing to the Black Sea through 10 countries and many cities including Vienna, Budapest and Belgrade, the second-longest river in Europe (6) |
| STRATHPEFFER | Former spa town in the Highlands (pop about 1,500), the site of the Pictish Eagle Stone (12) |
| BUXTON | Spa town in the heart of the Peak District (6) |
| CLAMBAKE | Picnic for the American sheep in the Black Forest, for example (8) |
| KIRSCH | Cherry brandy made chiefly in the Black Forest in Germany (6) |
| BUMMEL | Jerome K Jerome's Three Men on the ____ is about a bicycle tour in the Black Forest |
| NECKAR | German river that rises in the Black Forest and flows into the Rhine at Mannheim |
| TAR | In the Black Forest area, it's very dark |
| EVIAN | Green making a comeback in spa town in eastern France (5) |
| VICHY | Spa town in Allier, France; seat of the collaborationist government from 1940-44 (5) |
| DROITWICH | --- Spa, town in Worcestershire, England, on the River Salwarpe (9) |
| GATEAU | Portal, gold, in the form of the Black Forest? (6) |
| LLANDRINDODWELLS | Former spa town in C19th Radnorshire, famed for its chalybeate springs (11,5) |
| HARROGATE | North Yorkshire spa town in which the Harlow Carr garden is situated (9) |
| AIXLESBAINS | Spa town in Savoie, France, noted for its hot sulphur springs (3-3-5) |
| ILKLEY | Spa town in West Yorkshire whose moor is the subject of a folk song |