| FINDHORN | Village that was the principal seaport of Moray in the 17th century |
| TRINCOMALEE | The principal seaport of Sri Lanka |
| LATAKIA | The principal seaport of Syria (7) |
| ELGIN | The administrative town for Moray in Scotland, once recognised as a cathedral city (5) |
| GLENLIVET | Valley in Moray in Scotland noted for its whisky distillery (9) |
| EELS | Morays in oceans, e.g. |
| NASEBY | Northamptonshire village that was the site of a major Parliamentarian victory in the Civil War in 1645 (6) |
| EYNSHAM | Oxfordshire village that was the site of the last flash lock on the River Thames |
| ELALAMEIN | Egyptian village that was the scene of a decisive Allied victory over the Axis forces in 1942 |
| MALLTRAETH | Anglesey village that was the haunt of bird painter Charles Tunnicliffe for over 30 years (10) |
| GDANSK | Principal seaport of Poland, in the north on an inlet of the Baltic Sea (6) |
| ROSELLE | New Jersey village that was the first ever to be incandescently lit |
| OSTIA | Principal seaport of ancient Rome, originally at the mouth of the Tiber but now about 6 km (4 miles) inland (5) |
| PROPAGANDA | The first use of this word in English was in reference to a Roman Catholic organization established in the 17th century by Pope Gregory XV; this word was part of its much longer Latin name. Today the |
| CECIL | Biographer born at Hatfield House in 1902, whose spymaster ancestor, Robert, 1st Earl of Salisbury, was the principal discoverer of the Gunpowder Plot (5) |
| JETSAM | One of a pair of moray eels in the 1989 Disney film The Little Mermaid (6) |
| HAITINK | Violinist who was the principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra 1967-79 and musical director of Glyndebourne 1978-88 (7) |
| UMBERTOBOCCIONI | Italian painter and sculptor who was the principal theorist of the Futurist movement |
| ANDREWS | Prime minister of Northern Ireland whose brother, Thomas, was the principal designer of RMS Titanic (7) |
| FLOTSAMANDJETSAM | A pair of moray eels in the animated Disney film The Little Mermaid |
