| BELOIT | Wisconsin city near the border with Illinois |
| MADISON | Wisconsin city near Genoa City (Y&R) |
| WAUKES | Wisconsin city near Lake Michigan |
| IOWA | State that shares the Quad Cities with Illinois |
| INDIANAN | Girl found in bar with Illinois neighbour (8) |
| EXPRESS | Casey Jones was an engineer-driver with Illinois Central Railroad's Cannonball ... |
| LILLE | The anti-tuberculosis vaccine, the BCG, was discovered at the Pasteur Institute in this French city near the border with Belgium |
| SMOLENSK | Russian city near the border with Belarus (8) |
| PERPIGNAN | French town located at the foot of the Pyrenees near the border with Spain, in the 13th century it was the continental capital of the then Kingdom of Mallorca (9) |
| TRIESTE | Italian city and port on the Adriatic near the border with Slovenia; capital of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region (7) |
| AGARTALA | Capital of the state of Tripura in NE India, on the banks of the Haora River near the border with Bangladesh (8) |
| DUCE | Mussolini, for a time (with "Il") |
| RUSE | City in Bulgaria on the Danube near the border with Romania |
| RIPON | Wisconsin city billed as the "Birthplace of the Republican Party" |
| RACINE | Wisconsin city at the mouth of the Root River |
| MATADI | Port in the Democratic Republic of the Congo near the border with Angola (6) |
| MONMOUTH | Town in SE Wales near the border with England at the confluence of the Rivers Wye and Monnow |
| ELBRUS | Considered to be the highest mountain in Europe, in the Caucasus in SW Russia near the border with Georgia (6) |
| SHREVEPORT | City in Louisiana, on the Red River near the border with Texas (10) |
| VIENTIANE | Capital and largest city of Laos, on the Mekong River near the border with Thailand (9) |
