| NIN | "Cities of the Interior" author |
| ANAISNIN | "Cities of the Interior" author |
| ANAIS | "Cities of the Interior" author Nin |
| SOCHI | Port in the western foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, set to be one of the host cities of the 201 |
| ADULLAM | One of the royal cities of the Canaanites, called "the glory of Israel" by Micah |
| GOMORRAH | In the Old Testament, one of the "cities of the plain" destroyed by God, along with Sodom and two others |
| LVIV | ____ and Vilnius were the largest cities in the Second Polish Republic that later became cities of the USSR |
| SODOM | One of the "cities of the plain" |
| GAZA | One of the five chief cities of the Philistines |
| PLAIN | Cities of the ___, group of five cities including Sodom and Gomorrah (5) |
| EKRON | One of the five cities of the famed Philistine pentapolis, located in southwestern Canaan |
| UJJAIN | In India, one of the seven sacred cities of the Hindus (6) |
| NARDO | Town in Apulia that was one of the central cities of the Byzantine Empire |
| PORTLAND | Name shared by the most populous cities of the US states of Maine and Oregon (8) |
| GOLIATH | One large oaf originally having setback in one of the five cities of the Philistines (7) |
| KALAHARI | The large basinlike plain of the interior plateau of Southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, the eastern third of Namibia, and the northernmost part of Northern Cape province in South Afr |
| PUGIN | Augustus _, 19th-century architect; designer of much of the interior of the Palace of Westminster (5) |
| DYAK | A member of the Malaysian people of the interior of Borneo noted for their long houses (4) |
| DAYAK | In Borneo, a member of a tribe of the interior living mainly along the banks of rivers (5) |
| USNATIONALPARKS | They're managed by an agency of the Dept. of the Interior |