| BROWNSVILLE | Port on the Rio Grande, Texas, US, across the border from Matamoros, Mexico |
| TIERRADELFUEGO | An archipelago off the southernmost tip of South America, across the Strait of Magellan (6,3,5) |
| ELPASO | Texan city on the Rio Grande across the border from Chihuahua, Mexico (2,4) |
| JUAREZ | Mexico's Ciudad ___ lies directly across the border from El Paso, Texas. (6) |
| MEXACALI | City of NW Mexico across the border from, and named in complement to, the Californian city of Calexico (8) |
| NOGALES | Arizona city across the border from a city of Sonora with the same name |
| BLACKLION | Which county Cavan village, directly across the border from Belcoo, is Neven Maguire from? (9) |
| STRABANE | Town in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland across the border from Lifford, Republic of Ireland (8) |
| SONORA | State across the border from Arizona |
| AQABA | City across the border from Eilat |
| LALINEA | Spanish town just across the border from Gibraltar |
| TIJUANA | Mexican city across the border from San Diego |
| MEXICO | Country over the border from Texas, Nevada and California (6) |
| GARWAY | Two of my friends are hoping to get away at the end of spring, and arrange a visit to my village just over the border from Grosmont in Wales (6) |
| EVENINGPRIMROSE | Time for plain talking about The Border from this late bloomer (7,8) |
| AWA | Off north of the border from Bulawayo (3) |
| WACO | City in east-central Texas, US, on the Brazos River |
| HOUSTON | Inland port in SE Texas, US; site of the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center (7) |
| BETHLEHEM | Woman by the French border from the birthplace of Jesus (9) |
| DETROIT | River that flows along the US-Canada border from Lake St Clair to Lake Erie (7) |
