| POITIERS | The site of major battle in west-central France (1356) (8) |
| HASTINGS | Police Chief has surrounded site of major battle (8) |
| SOMME | French river, scene of major battle in WWI (5) |
| ARGONNE | Wooded region of NE France: scene of major battles in both World Wars. (7) |
| HUE | Ancient Vietnamese Imperial city that was the scene of major battles in the 1968 Tet offensive |
| YPRES | Belgian town, once a prosperous textile centre, site of major battles of the First World War (5) |
| YORKTOWN | Site of the last major battle of the American Revolution in 1781, in SE Virginia south-east of Williamsburg (8) |
| LIMOUSIN | A former administrative region of West-Central France, the capital of which was Limoges (8) |
| ROSETOWN | 'The Heart of the Wheat Belt' community in West-central Saskatchewan |
| SMOLENSK | City on the Dnieper River in west central Russia first mentioned in 863 AD (8) |
| FLANDERS | It was a major battle theatre on the Western Front during the First World War. |
| LIMOGES | City in west-central France, noted for the production of porcelain (7) |
| MARSHALL | -- Islands, 34 coral isles in west central Pacific (8) |
| SOLINGEN | City in west central Germany noted for cutlery (8) |
| GABONESE | Relating to a country in west central Africa, independent since 1960 (8) |
| TOURS | A city in west central France, on the River Loire (5) |
| COGNAC | Brandy from the town in west central France |
| EVESHAM | This town in Worcestershire was the location of the last major battle in the Barons' War (1265) |
| TRAFALGAR | Cape in the Spanish province of Cadiz, south-west Spain, where the British Admiral Lord Nelson won a major battle in 1805 (9) |
| CAMEROON | Country in west-central Africa (183,510 sq miles; pop about 27 million), independent since 1960 (8) |
