| BOSTON | The state capital of Massachusetts, USA (6) |
| MARKKA | Old capital of Massachusetts around flood defence close to Warwick (6) |
| AUSTIN | The state capital of Texas, USA (6) |
| HELENA | The state capital of Montana, in the US (6) |
| SYDNEY | The state capital of New South Wales and birthplace of actor Hugh Jackman (6) |
| DENVER | What is the state capital of Colorado? (6) |
| ALBANY | What is the state capital of New York? (6) |
| TOPEKA | The state capital of Kansas (6) |
| PIERRE | What is the state capital of South Dakota? (6) |
| JUNEAU | The state capital of Alaska |
| AMERICA | Finally Condoleezza Rice misled in Massachusetts, USA (7) |
| BAYSTATE | A nickname for Massachusetts, USA (3,5) |
| SALEM | Historic coastal city in Massachusetts, US, and site of the famous witch trials of 1692-3 (5) |
| COD | Cape ?, peninsula in Massachusetts, US, housing the resort of Provincetown (3) |
| NANTUCKET | Island off SE Massachusetts, US; a former centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| REPLICATE | Island off SE Massachusetts, US; a former centre of the whaling industry (9) |
| ATLANTA | The state capital of Georgia, USA, host city of the 1996 Olympics (7) |
| MONTGOMERY | Name of the state capital of Alabama, and of ruthless nuclear power plant owner Mr Burns in The Simpsons (10) |
| DESMOINES | The state capital of Iowa, USA (3,6) |
| LITTLEROCK | The state capital of Arkansas, USA (6,4) |
