Around the World

[Looby]

The clues all give place names outside the UK. The number in brackets gives the total number of letters in the answer, but it may be more than one word. Some answers are the old (previous) name for a city or town.

1 Fast food without hesitation (7)
2 Old capital of Russia (12)
3 Royal Mountain (8)
4 A greenfly after its food? (8)
5 Were you going there in the 60s? (12)
6 A town worth copying (12)
7 A good place to visit in the springtime (5)
8 Pleasant (4)
9 Most of it goes mad in March (6)
10 England's unofficial anthem, often mixed with jam (9)
11 Mixed definite article before raced (6)
12 Starts with a religion (9)
13 Cream cheese (12)
14 Its inhabitants should know their human rights (10)
15 Wine bottle stopper (4)
16 Sounds like a mixed up bovine vehicle (5)
17 A good place for tulips (9)
18 The opposite of 2 nor 2 (7)
19 Sinatra's kind of town (7)
20 Winner of Waterloo (10)
21 An African mix of some drab underwear (6)
22 Was raw meat reversed? (6)
23 19th century prime minister (9)
24 Atmosphere in small company (5)
25 Home for cinematic insomniacs (7)
26 Sounds like you're having a quick look (6)
27 Bad foreign cooker (6)
28 Traditional Monday activity and a weight (10)
29 Lots of good air here (11)
30 Eaten at Christmas (8)
31 A lovable bear mainly used to put out washing (8)
32 Rick and Isla's meeting place (10)
33 Agony aunt for astronauts (7)
34 Not a duet gets confused here (4)
35 Sybil's excuse: "He's from..." (9)
36 Home town for Charles and Erasmus (6)
37 Ah, left (6)
38 it's a long way to here (9)
39 Nearly begins with an cuddly Australian mammal (11)
40 Includes something found in the kitchen and bathroom (8)
41 Type of envelope (6)
42 A confused postal service (4)
43 Golden venue for Jayne and Chris (8)
44 Sounds like a loud rooster (7)
45 Home of the modern Olympics (6)
46 Starts with the French (5)
47 Wife to William IV (8)
48 Nearly cut grass with a beverage (5)
49 A capital alternative to Berlin (4)
50 Very similar to a dishevelled American detective (7)
51 Spilt spilt (5)
52 Highest venue for Summer Olympics (10)
53 Visited by Katrina (10)
54 Finishes with half of a giant ape (8)
55 In Oxford and Cambridge (12)
56 Big apple (7)
57 Part of a number line (6)
58 Starts with a short journey or fall (7)
59 Where chicken meets garlic butter (4)
60 Origin of the French national anthem? (9)
61 Famous for its large table (8)
62 A green-coated herbivore? (6)
63 Features NaCI in lots of H2O (12)
64 A bit like multiplying by two (6)
65 Not far from a mountainous camera maker (5)
66 A carbon copy with half a short skirt (5)
67 Partly shares its name with Man Utd footballer (12)
68 Cinematic location for a cricket fielding position (6)
69 Besieged in 1942 (10)
70 Scottish fort and church exemplifying British spirit (7)
71 Shares its name with its country (10)
72 Ends with boom-bang-a-bang singer (8)
73 Home to the most famous balcony in literature (6)
74 Leave with nothing (5)
75 Now a major bank in UK (9)


I have my answers for most of them. Definitive answers next month.

[Looby]

I have answers for most of these now.

Anyone like to offer help with #6, 21, 37, 46 & 48

I have answers for 2 of them but would like to see if anyone else thinks as I do and for 3 I don't have suitable answers at all

[giraffe]

6Alice springs?

[Looby]

That is what I'd thought for #6, but I thought that might be a bit obscure

[LAT]

46 Leeds?

[Looby]

NB All the place names are outside the UK

[LAT]

Oh!

[LAT]

Le Mans?

[Looby]

Could be!?

[giraffe]

I thought of that but it has 6 letters.

[giraffe]

48. would cut grass beHAY ? Beverage TEA ? So maybe anagram THEAY?

[chazzie]

i was thinking along similar lines but was thinking haiti -

[LAT]

I thought of that but it has 6 letters.

Think I should give up now!

[Looby]

Final answers. Because she had said places and not towns/cities there were 2 where she allowed answers that perfectly fitted the clue but weren't what she had thought of originally.

1 Hamburg
2 St Perersburg
3 Montreal
4 Budapest
5 San Francisco
6 Alice Springs
7 Paris
8 Nice
9 Harare
10 Jerusalem
11 Tehran
12 Islamabad
13 Philadelphia
14 Strasbourg
15 Cork
16 Kabul
17 Amsterdam
18 Toronto
19 Chicago
20 Wellington
21 Durban
22 Warsaw
23 Melbourne
24 Cairo
25 Seattle
26 Peking
27 Malaga
28 Washington
29 Buenos Aires
30 Brussels
31 Winnipeg
32 Casablanca
33 Houston
34 Oslo
35 Barcelona
36 Darwin
37 Saigon
38 Tipperary
38 Kuala Lumpur
40 Helsinki
41 Manila
42 Lima but Mali allowed
43 Sarajevo
44 Bangkok
45 Athens
46 Lagos
47 Adelaide
48 Haiti but Mocha allowed
49 Bonn
50 Colombo
51 Split
52 Mexico City
53 New Orleans
54 Hong Kong
55 Christchurch
56 New York
57 Berlin
58 Tripoli
59 Kiev
60 Marseille
61 Cape Town
62 Moscow
63 Salt Lake City
64 Dublin
65 Tokyo
66 Accra
67 Rio de Janeiro
68 Vienna
69 Stalingrad
70 Dunkirk
71 Luxembourg
72 Honolulu
73 Verona
74 Quito
75 Santander