| REYKJAVIK | The world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state, with buildings heated by natural hot water |
| MONACO | Sovereign state with an area of less than a square mile |
| ICEL | Home of the world's northernmost capital city: Abbr. |
| TERRITORY | Area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state (9) |
| FLOS | Paired with "ferri", thus "flower of iron", a coral-like variety of aragonite, found around natural hot springs (4) |
| GEYSER | A natural hot spring that ejects a column of water (6) |
| MAJESTY | A title used to address or refer to a sovereign or the wife or widow of a sovereign (7) |
| BATH | Somerset city occupied since the time of the Celts and always known for its natural hot springs |
| THULE | For the ancients, the world's northernmost inhabited land (5) |
| TRONDHEIM | Norwegian city, home of the world's northernmost medieval cathedral |
| GEYSERS | Natural hot-water springs |
| CFS | Mil. post on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut which is the world's northernmost permanently inhabited location, _ _ _ Alert |
| VICEROY | Governor of a country, ruling as the representative of a sovereign; name for Indian restaurants in Hyde and Handforth (7) |
| BOARD | The household, palace and retinue of a sovereign; a patio; or, a clay area on which to play tennis (5) |
| COURTIER | A cupbearer, lady-in-waiting, liege, page, steward or other attendant at the royal household of a sovereign (8) |
| GEOTHERMAL | Heated by internal heat of the earth (10) |
| GEOTHERMIC | Heated by internal heat of the earth (10) |
| FLATIRON | Iron that was heated by placing it on a person (8) |
| REIGN | Period of the rule of a sovereign (5) |
| REALM | A sovereign state (5) |
