| ROSTOV | Old town in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, on the shores of Lake Nero (6) |
| MEDINA | Part of old town in area east of the Mediterranean |
| BUREAU | Office in old town in beautiful French surroundings (6) |
| LUPIN | Cottage garden perennial plant with spikes of flowers in all colours growing in all parts of the world, notably the shores of Lake Tekapo in New Zealand (5) |
| BOURGS | Old 'towns' in France |
| MOSKVA | Russian river that flows through the Smolensk and Moscow Oblasts |
| PRESUME | "Dr Livingstone, I -", greeting of Henry Morton Stanley upon locating David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in Africa (7) |
| LAUSANNE | You and I find article in narrow road on the shores of Lake Geneva (8) |
| KAMPALA | Capital of Uganda, on the shores of Lake Victoria (7) |
| EVIAN | Mineral water from mountains surrounding a French spa town on the shores of Lake Geneva (5) |
| WADIHALFA | City in Northern Sudan on the shores of Lake Nubia |
| BUFFALO | City of New York on the shores of Lake Erie (7) |
| WHOTHEHELLKNOWS | Left tributary of the Vitim River in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia |
| ROYALMILE | Famous thoroughfare of the Old Town in the city of Edinburgh (5,4) |
| BURUNDI | African country, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, capital Bujumbura (7) |
| HINEMOA | Legendary maiden who lived on the shores of Lake Rotorua (7) |
| UJIJI | Town in Tanzania on the shore of Lake Tanganyika where Henry Stanley found David Livingstone in 1871 |
| MANAGUA | Capital on the shores of Lake Xolotlan |
| CHICAGO | City on the shores of Lake Michigan (7) |
| SHAKHTY | City in Rostov Oblast, Russia, associated with a 1928 show trial (7) |
