| LESMAHAGOW | Town in Lanarkshire (pop 4,500), the site of an old priory established in 1144 (10) |
| AIRDRIE | Industrial town in Lanarkshire (pop 37,000), once a handloom weaving centre (7) |
| BEAULY | Small town in the Highlands (pop about 1,500), with a ruined priory established around 1230 (6) |
| ABBEY | A couple of bishops back the old priory (5) |
| MEDIC | PlusWord No 1144 |
| MOTHERWELL | Former burgh in Lanarkshire (pop 32,000), once a centre of steel production (10) |
| ALAMO | Site of an old Texas siege |
| SCAR | Site of an old wound (4) |
| CARFIN | Village in Lanarkshire (pop 2,000), with a grotto which is a major pilgrimage site (6) |
| STRATHAVEN | Town in south Lanarkshire (pop about 7,500), created a burgh of barony in 1541 (10) |
| CAIRNCROSS | Surname of the member of the Cambridge Five spy ring born in Lanarkshire (10) |
| AQUAESULIS | You say Sue and Lisa, who have a place in the centre of Torquay, are off to the site of an ancient Roman town near Bristol? (5,5) |
| NECROPOLIS | An old burial site often near the site of an ancient city |
| VERSAILLES | City near Paris that is the site of an elaborate royal residence built for Louis XIV |
| AREQUIPA | City in S Peru, at an altitude of 2250m, founded in 1540 on the site of an Inca city |
| KNEE | Wounded_ the site of an 1890 massacre of Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army (4) |
| LAYBROTHER | Does he do the singing in the priory? (3-7) |
| YALTA | Resort on the Black Sea (pop 75,000), located on the site of an ancient Greek colony (5) |
| ROSWELL | City in New Mexico which was the site of an alleged UFO incident in 1947 (7) |
| DNC | Org. whose HQ at the Watergate office complex was the site of an infamous 1972 break-in |
