| LAICAL | One stands between a city and its state of unprofessionalism |
| SHADOW | Shape cast when an object stands between a surface and a source of light (6) |
| MALPRACTICE | Pair perform, beset by spite and unprofessionalism |
| ASSASSINATION | I stand between a couple of donkeys and country murder (13) |
| METRO | ___ area (urban region that includes a city and its suburbs) |
| AREA | Metropolitan ___ (a city and its surrounding suburbs) |
| METROAREA | Region encompassing a city and its suburbs |
| URBANAREA | A city and its outskirts, especially when measuring population |
| METROPOLITAN | Relating to a city and its suburbs(12) |
| INERTIA | It is a property of a body by virtue of which it is unable to change its state of rest or of uniform motion itself (7) |
| FORD | One of two crossings Madox stands between? |
| APGARSCORE | Test given to a newborn to determine its state of health (5,5) |
| NEWJERSEY | Atlantic City and its famous boardwalk are found on the coast of this state in the north-east of the |
| MARCELLA | Name, referring to France's second city and its traditional white quilting, of a pique fabric with a golf ball- or waffle-like surface, formerly used for summer waistcoats (8) |
| MESSINA | It is a city and a port. It was first mentioned about 730 BCE. It was founded by settlers from Chalcis, who called it Zankle ("Sickle"), from the shape of its harbour. In Much Ado About Nothing (act 1 |
| VIRGINIA | What stands between North Carolina and Kentucky |
| BOARDROOM | Penny stands between boar and returning Moor in directors' forum (9) |
| REVEL | Just for fun, a woman stands between the two sides |
| ENMITY | What stands between foes - the enormity of losing or bad blood (6) |
| BOMBAY | Former name of a city and port in the west of India (6) |
