| DUDLEY | Town in west central England (6) |
| CHESHIRE | County in west central England (8) |
| COGNAC | Brandy from the town in west central France |
| GIBSON | Desert in west central Australia (6) |
| NAKURU | City in west central Kenya (6) |
| AIRDRIE | A town in West Central Scotland, in North Lanarkshire (7) |
| POITOU | Historic province in west-central France whose capital was Poitiers (6) |
| MIDLAND | A town in west central Texas (7) |
| OSTIA | An ancient town in West Central Italy, which served as the port of ancient Rome (5) |
| MERCIA | An Anglo-Saxon kingdom in central England ruled over by Offa in the late 8th century (6) |
| NASEBY | Near which village in central England, in 1645, were the Royalists defeated? (6) |
| OXFORD | City in S. central England (6) |
| LESTER | Hustle star Adrian's in city of central England, we hear (6) |
| DELUXE | Rich continental couple securing central England for Spain (2,4) |
| LITTLEBIGHORN | River in west central USA, its banks were scene of defeat in 1876 of General Custer (6,7) |
| NOVOSIBIRSK | A city in West Central Russia, on the River Ob, the largest city in Siberia (11) |
| SMOLENSK | City on the Dnieper River in west central Russia first mentioned in 863 AD (8) |
| RUHR | A river in west central Germany, flowing west into the Rhine (4) |
| CHAD | Lake in west-central Africa |
| COLORADO | River and state in west central US |
