| DORCHESTER | The administrative centre of Dorset (10) |
| CROFT | Farm acre in the middle of Dorset, at last (5) |
| CHELMSFORD | The administrative centre of Essex (10) |
| MOTHERWELL | The administrative centre of North Lanarkshire (10) |
| SHREWSBURY | The administrative centre of Shropshire (10) |
| CHICHESTER | City that is the administrative centre of West Sussex (10) |
| MIDLOTHIAN | Dalkeith is the administrative centre of this Scottish unitary authority (10) |
| TROWBRIDGE | The administrative centre of Wiltshire |
| TARAWA | Coral atoll of the Gilbert Islands in the westcentral Pacific Ocean; location of Bairiki, the administrative centre of Kiribati (6) |
| WATERCRESS | Growing wild in clean flowing chalk streams of Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire, an aquatic plant valued as a food since Roman times which is traditionally used to make soup (10) |
| INVERNESS | A city on the northeast coast of Scotland; the administrative centre of the Highland council area (9) |
| NEWPORT | The administrative centre of the Isle of Wight (7) |
| TOPKAPI | The ____ Palace in Istanbul was once the administrative centre of the Ottoman Empire |
| IPSWICH | The administrative centre of Suffolk, on the Orwell estuary (7) |
| MAIDSTONE | The administrative centre of Kent, on the River Medway (9) |
| WOOMERA | Town in South Australia built in 1947 as the administrative centre of the Long Range Weapons Establi |
| EDENHOPE | First settled by RC and G Hope from River Eden in Scotland, what is the administrative centre of the |
| ELGIN | Market town in Scotland on the River Lossie that is the administrative centre of Moray (5) |
| THEHAGUE | City which is the administrative centre of the Netherlands (3,5) |
| ABERDEEN | Scottish city that was the administrative centre of the former Grampian Region (8) |
