| IFE | University town in central Nigeria; a centre of the cocoa trade (3) |
| IWO | City in Osun, SW Nigeria; a major trading centre for cocoa (3) |
| ABUJA | Newly-built city in central Nigeria, now the capital (5) |
| ABILENE | US university town in central Texas associated with the oil refining industry |
| EPERNAY | Town on the bank of the River Marne in France that is a centre of the champagne industry (7) |
| NASARAWA | State of north central Nigeria created in 1996; capital, Lafia (8) |
| STIRS | Makes the cocoa go round in the mug |
| PRINCETON | US university town in central New Jersey (9) |
| CACAO | The common (and Spanish) name for the plant from which the cocoa bean comes (5) |
| BRINDISI | Ancient South East Italian port, end point of the Roman Appian Way and a centre of the Crusades in the Middle Ages (8) |
| AMRITSAR | A city in India, in North West Punjab; a centre of the Sikh religion (8) |
| HALIFAX | Town in West Yorkshire; a centre of the textile industry from the 15th Century (7) |
| MACON | City in central France, a centre of the wine-producing region of lower Burgundy (5) |
| LIBEREC | City in the Czech Republic, a centre of the German Sudeten movement in 1938 (7) |
| PLAINCHOCOLATE | Confectionery's power - all in the cocoa, possibly (5,9) |
| STIR | How to make the cocoa go round in jug! (4) |
| PEAR | Make the cocoa go round in jug? (4) |
| OUDH | Region in central Uttar Pradesh,which was a centre of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-58 (4) |
| LODZ | Major city of central Poland, a centre of the textile industry (4) |
| KETTERING | Town in Northamptonshire, formerly a centre of the footwear industry (9) |
