| GETAFE | Spanish city in the southern zone of the Madrid metropolitan area whose football team reached the finals of the Copa del Rey in 2007 |
| EDSHEERAN | English singer-songwriter whose debut single The A Team reached number 3 in the UK chart in 2011 |
| UDULL | Which headmaster of Eton in 1537 and tutor to Edward Courtenay in the Tower, is credited with the fi |
| MONZA | City north-east of Milan that hosts the FI Italian GP (5) |
| MAKINGACOMEBACK | Returning to popularity, or what you'd have been doing if you followed the sequence formed by the fi |
| PENICILLIN | Discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming and later developed by Howard Florey and Ernst Chain, the fi |
| HOCKEY | Sport where the Indian women's team reached a World Cup final. (6) |
| SCHMALTZ | Excessive sentimentality shown by companion getting whisky in southern zone (8) |
| BAEZ | Singer Joan has headquarters overlooking southern zone (4) |
| CORDOBA | Spanish city in the Andalucia region, location of the magnificent 8th century La Mezquita (7) |
| AVILA | Spanish city in hill country north-west of Madrid, at 1,123m it is the highest provincial capital in the country and is famous for its intact medieval city walls (5) |
| OURENSE | Spanish city in Galicia whose hot springs hold one of the greatest amounts of geothermal water in Europe |
| NAURU | Republic in the Pacific, 8 sq. miles in area, whose economy depends on the export of phosphate rock (5) |
| MALMO | Swedish city whose football team is the only Nordic club to have reached the European Cup final (5) |
| BREDA | A city in the southern Netherlands, the residence of Charles II during his exile (5) |
| CEBU | Oldest Spanish city in the Philippines |
| BARCELONA | Spanish city in the Catalonia region (9) |
| LASPALMAS | Spanish city in the Canary Islands |
| ALVEOLI | Small porous air sacs found in the respiratory zone of the lungs (7) |
| ALVEOLUS | Small porous air sac found in the respiratory zone of the lungs (8) |
