| GLOUCESTER | With the Cotswolds to its east and the Wye Valley to its west, city with a cathedral whose cloisters were used as a location in three Harry Potter films (10) |
| MONMOUTH | Welsh town at the confluence of the Monnow and the Wye (8) |
| SWITHUN | Patron saint of Winchester Cathedral whose feast day is July 15 (7) |
| NAPLES | This city was once the capital of the Two Sicillies. It lies on the west coast of the Italian peninsula, 120 miles (190 km) southeast of Rome. Mount Vesuvius to its east and the Campi Flegrei (Phlegra |
| THAMES | Flowing from the Cotswolds to London, the longest river entirely in England (6) |
| AVON | River which flows from the Cotswolds to the Bristol Channel (4) |
| CAUCASUS | This mountain system lies between the Black Sea (which is to its west) and the Caspian Sea (which is to its east). It reaches across parts of Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. (8) |
| USTYURT | Plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya river delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the |
| WESTVIRGINIAN | Of a US state bounded by the Appalachians to the east and the Ohio River to the west (4,9) |
| DEADSEA | Salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and the West Bank and Israel to the west (4,3) |
| CHILE | South American country occupying a long coastal strip between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west (5) |
| AONBS | Abbreviation of the special conservation designations applied to Quantock Hills, Cotswolds, Cranborne Chase or the Wye Valley (1,1,1,1,1) |
| ROUEN | With a cathedral depicted in a series of paintings by Monet, a city on the Seine serving as the capi |
| CORDOBA | Andalusian city with a cathedral (the Mezquita) that was formerly a mosque (7) |
| SEVERN | With a tributary flowing through the Wye Valley, the UK's longest river (6) |
| UTE | Many a Coloradan (to say nothing of the state a little to its west!) |
| CHARTRES | French city with a cathedral renowned for its stained glass windows (8) |
| MANCHESTER | City in north-west England with Salford to its west (10) |
| POMEGRANATE | Used to make grenadine, a fruit depicted with portcullises, Tudor roses and fleurs-de-lis in the roof carvings of the cloisters of St Stephen's Chapel (11) |
| LANGUEDOC | --Roussillon; stretching from Provence to the Pyrenees (Rhone valley to the Spanish border), a French area forming part of Occitanie (9) |
