| MAURITIUS | Island nation once home to the dodo (9) |
| TUNISIA | North Africa's smallest nation, once home to the ancient city of Carthage |
| SOLITAIRE | Game bird related to the dodo |
| SINGAPORE | Island nation once a British crown colony |
| EARLYBIRD | Catcher of worms, as the dodo was? |
| SHEA | Stadium that was once home to the Mets and the Jets |
| LIMEGROVE | Street in Shepherd's Bush, London, once home to a Gaumont Film Company studio complex |
| KINGKAMEHAMEHA | Monarch of an island nation, once |
| SAMOA | Island nation once governed by Germany |
| SCHWERIN | German city with a schloss (castle) on a small island once home to the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg (8) |
| CREMONA | City in the Po Valley of Italy, once home to the luthier families Amati, Guarneri and Stradivari (7) |
| MANCHESTER | City in New Hampshire (pop about 110,000), once home to the largest cotton mill in the world (10) |
| SOMERSET | - House; building on the Strand designed by William Chambers, once home to the Royal Academy (8) |
| HAWORTH | Village in West Yorkshire, once home to the Bronte family (7) |
| OREM | City that was once home to the Osmonds' TV studio |
| WACO | Texas town, once home to the Branch Davidian religious sect (4) |
| PERU | South American country that was once home to the Incan Empire |
| IONIA | Ancient region once home to the Temple of Artemis |
| DELPHI | Greek town, once home to the oracle, Pythia (6) |
| BUTTE | Rocky Mountain city once home to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company |
