| ECCLES | _ cake, small currant-filled pie named after the Greater Manchester town of the same name (6) |
| OLDTRAFFORD | The Greater Manchester home of Lancashire County Cricket Club (3,8) |
| NESSELRODE | Kind of pie named for a Russian count |
| PISCES | Sign pastries include small currants initially |
| HENLEY | Casual top with a buttoned placket in the traditional style of the rowers of a regatta hosted in/near a town of the same name on the Thames (6) |
| AMALFI | Coastline on Italy's Gulf of Salerno, home to a town of the same name and also Ravello and Positano (6) |
| TAKAKA | River in the South Island that enters Golden Bay at a town of the same name (6) |
| BOLTON | Greater Manchester town, home of the Wanderers football club (6) |
| PENURY | Writer on Greater Manchester town with no leader and lack of resources (6) |
| SLEIGH | Travel in winter from small Greater Manchester town (6) |
| SADDLE | Burden of theologian in Greater Manchester town (6) |
| OLDHAM | Greater Manchester town that lies between the rivers Irk and Medlock (6) |
| INHALE | Take the air in Greater Manchester town (6) |
| DENTON | Study fashion in Greater Manchester town |
| LAKEJINDABYNE | What body of water, formed by the Snowy River dam, covers a small town of the same name? (4,9) |
| MARPLE | Help ramblers partway up from S. Manchester town (6) |
| ECCLESCAKE | Flaky pastry pie filled with currants, named after a Greater Manchester town (6,4) |
| HEBBURN | Chris Ramsey comedy which was set in the Tyne & Wear town of the same name (7) |
| NEUFCHATEL | Soft creamy whole-milk cheese made in town of the same name in northern France (10) |
| SAINTEMILION | A full-bodied red wine produced around a town of the same name near Bordeaux in south-west France (5-7) |
