| RENFREW | Town 6 miles west of Glasgow known as the "Cradle of the Royal Stewarts" |
| OTTERYSTMARY | Devon town 6 miles north-west of Sidmouth (6,2,4) |
| RENEW | Start again in the Cradle of the Royal Stewarts without father (5) |
| ALLOA | Industrial town 6 miles east of Stirling, on the Forth (5) |
| MARYHILL | Area of Glasgow known for its canal system and glass industry (8) |
| ALBANY | State capital of New York, known as the Cradle of the Union (6) |
| STUTTGART | German city known as the 'cradle of the automobile' |
| ANTIOCH | Ancient capital of the Seleucid kings of Syria, founded c300BC, known as the "Cradle of Christianity" |
| FANEUILHALL | Also known as the "Cradle of Liberty", a popular tourist site in Boston, Massachusetts |
| SAMOA | Nation known as the "Cradle of Polynesia" |
| TURIN | City known as the "cradle of Italian liberty" |
| PEI | Province known as the Cradle of Confederation |
| ATHENS | European city seen as the cradle of Western civilisation (6) |
| ALABAMA | State called the cradle of the Confederacy during the US Civil War |
| ROBERTOWEN | Welsh social and educational reformer who established the model community at New Lanark, the cradle of the co-operative movement |
| AKRON | The cradle of the U.S. rubber industry (hint: Ohio). |
| OPHRAH | In the Old Testament, a city of Manasseh, 6 miles south-west of Shechem, that was the residence of Gideon |
| HARLOW | New town in west Essex, 6 miles southsouth-west of Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire (6) |
| SEABED | The cradle of the deep? (3,3) |
| WATERBED | The cradle of the deep? |
