| DURANGO | Mexican city located in the south central part of the state of the same name in the fertile valley of the Sierra Madre Occidental (7) |
| BEKAA | Fertile valley of east Lebanon |
| DENVER | US city located in the South Platte River Valley (6) |
| ANDALUSIA | Autonomous community of Spain located in the south of the Iberian Peninsula (9) |
| HAWICK | Town in the South Central Scottish Borders on the River Teviot (6) |
| DUST | The - Bowl, area in the south central U.S. affected by wind erosion (4) |
| LUNDA | A Bantu language spoken by a people of the same name in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5) |
| LILAC | A pale violet or lavender colour evocative of a fragrant flower of the same name in the olive family (5) |
| ELIZABETH | This US actress plays a character of the same name in the NZ film A Mistake, - Banks (9) |
| STATENISLAND | One of the five boroughs of New York City, located in the southwest of the city (6,6) |
| TAKLAMAKAN | Desert of Central Asia and one of the largest sandy deserts in the world, occupying the central part of the Tarim Basin in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. (5,5) |
| SALEM | Capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River. |
| SAOPAULO | Most populous city of Brazil; capital of a southern state of the same name (3,5) |
| ARMAGNAC | Type of brandy produced in the region of the same name in Gascony, southwest France (8) |
| DUSTBOWL | Area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s (4,4) |
| OKLAHOMA | State of the south central US separated from Texas to the south and west by the Red River (8) |
| LIEGE | Largest French-speaking city in Belgium, capital of a state of the same name (5) |
| PERICARDIUM | Membranous sac that surrounds the heart, anchored by ligaments to the central part of the diaphragm and the rear of the sternum (11) |
| SALZBURG | Austrian city in state of the same name near German border (8) |
| UPHOLSTERCOUNTY | Redo the furniture of every house in your part of the state? |
