| MEDICINEHAT | Canadian city described as the trapdoor to "all hell for a basement" by Rudyard Kipling |
| LUXOR | Egyptian city described as 'the world's greatest open-air museum' (5) |
| BOOKSELLER | Dealer in volumes to reserve basement by phone (10) |
| CELLAR | A stock of wine; another name for a basement; or, a container for salt (6) |
| CINCINNATI | A US city described by Longfellow as 'the Queen of the West' (10) |
| DISMAY | It is hell for a month, such a hapless state (6) |
| PUNE | City described by Jawaharlal Nehru as the 'Oxford of the East' |
| SUMMERMADNESS | It's supposed to be as hot as hell when all hell breaks loose in silly season (6,7) |
| MAELSTROM | Returns in the morning from the Spanish wild storm, as all hell breaks lose (9) |
| CHARADES | Commander initially put gunners through hell for a game |
| HELPLINE | Pine away in Hell for a phone service (8) |
| DOWNTOTHESQUIRE | Directions for a basement escort? |
| LIGHT | Concern for a basement apartment |
| DROP | A pendant; a precipice; a lemon- or pear-flavoured sweet; a trapdoor on a gallows; or, a chocolate chip (4) |
| SCUTTLE | A hurried run; an opening/trapdoor in a ship's deck; a fireside vessel for coal; or, a basket for vegetables (7) |
| OUBLIETTE | A dungeon, the only entrance to which is through a trapdoor in the ceiling (9) |
| AREA | A basement's light well; a penalty box in football; a geographic region; or, a field of study (4) |
| LEEDS | English industrial city described by Dickens as "an odious place" |
| GRENOBLE | US city, described by Great Britain, like empty French city |
| CAGLIARI | Sardinian port city described by D. H. Lawrence in his travel memoire Sea And Sardinia (8) |
