| LATERAN | - Palace, papal residence housing the Vatican Historical Museum (7) |
| REDSQUARE | Area, often considered to be the heart of Moscow, surrounded by the Kremlin, GUM Department Store, the State Historical Museum and St Basil's Cathedral (3,6) |
| CHIHUAHUACITY | Site of the Historical Museum of the Mexican Revolution |
| RENNES | French city residence housing queen, first to quit (6) |
| PALACE | Residence housing foremost of aristocrats? |
| VATICAN | Vessel I preserve for Papal residence (7) |
| AVIGNON | Soon collecting six Roman grandees, initially in old papal residence |
| VATICANPALACE | Papal residence |
| KREMLIN | Citadel in Moscow housing the official residence of the president of Russia (7) |
| UTRECHT | City in the Netherlands housing the Dom Tower (7) |
| FINANCE | Pay for the groom-to-be housing the last Percheron (7) |
| OYONNAX | Commune in Ain, France, housing the Museum of Combs and Plastics (7) |
| NACELLE | Streamlined structure housing the engine of an aircraft; or, the gondola of a hot-air balloon (7) |
| NETANYA | Some entering sort of neat Israeli city housing the Museum of Yemenite Jewish Heritage (7) |
| GRANADA | City in Andalusia, Spain housing the Alhambra (7) |
| SHERPAS | Healthy places for housing the female mountaineers? (7) |
| DELUDES | Guys housing the Spanish must be fools (7) |
| ROANOKE | City in Virginia, US, housing the man-made Mill Mountain Star (7) |
| DURANGO | State in Mexico housing the General Guadalupe Victoria International Airport (7) |
| GARDENS | See 9ac, Park in Cardiff housing the home of Glamorgan CCC (6,7) |
