| SOLIHULL | One of the most prosperous towns in the English Midlands (8) |
| BRECON | Town in the English name of a Welsh national park |
| SOUTHWELL | All-weather racetrack in the English midlands (9) |
| LEICESTER | City in the English Midlands (9) |
| DENNISQUAID | Frank Towns in the 2004 movie, Flight of the Phoenix (6,5) |
| AGORAE | Areas of Greek towns in the past regularly arcaded (6) |
| MEASE | River of the English Midlands, noted for bullhead and spined loach (5) |
| SLEEPY | Like beach towns in the winter |
| MILAN | It is the capital of the region of Lombardy (Lombardia) in northern Italy. It is a leading financial centre and the most prosperous manufacturing and commercial city of Italy. In The Tempest (act 1, s |
| FIFTIETH | English Midlands city, site of 1651 battle (9) |
| SORRENTO | One of the coastal towns in Italy's Campania region famed for lemons and limoncello (8) |
| OTTOMANS | Members of a Turkish empire which in the 16th century attacked Pollensa, Andratx, Soller and other coastal towns in Mallorca (8) |
| ARROGATE | Claim Yorkshire town's in need of leadership (8) |
| BACKVELD | Country remote from towns in South Africa (8) |
| PROVINS | In the 13th century, this town was one of the most important towns in France, with a population of 80,000 inhabitants. It was a prosperous wool centre, and its fairs were famous all over Europe. It wa |
| SINGAPORE | City-state which, under Lee Kuan Yew, became the most prosperous country in south-east Asia (9) |
| ILSA | The "she" of "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" |
| GIN | "Of all the ... joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine," said Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca |
| SEQUESTER | Appropriate person looking for most prosperous area of the country? (9) |
| OFALL | Famous quote from the 1942 film Casablanca, "_ _ the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..." (2,3) |
