| 2nd letter | Clue | Answer starting with V | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | City-state located in Rome (11) | Vatican City | 100%
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| E | South American country (9) | Venezuela | 88%
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| I | The capital of Lithuania (7) | Vilnius | 88%
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| G | The airport code of the Spanish city where Celta play (3) | VGO | 63%
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| L | Russian Pacific port where Vlad the First boards his spaceship (11) | Vladivostok | 63%
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| M | North London business which sells vapes, mobiles and presents (3) | VMG [gifts] | 63%
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| O | River of Burkina Faso and Ghana (5) | Volta | 63%
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| Q | The code for the airport in Vieques, Puerto Rico (3) | VQS | 63%
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| U | Romanian town where Spock comes from (6) | Vulcan | 50%
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| W | Jimi Hendrix's effects foot pedal heard in Tanzanian town (5) | Vwawa | 38%
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| Y | Half-man, half-robot has its head chopped off in Russian town (6) | Vyborg | 38%
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| B | Indian school which will soon have you moving up (4) | VBUP | 25%
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| C | Take a tortuous line up hill in Slovakia (6) | Vcelin | 25%
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| D | Nothing left of love; a closing chord sounds at Czech pond (6) | Vdovec | 25%
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| F | Universal core at role reversal in Zambian stream (5) | Vfuta | 25%
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| H | Infrared beam scrambled, a loss replaced by electron initialisation at Kenyan village (8) | Vhirembe | 25%
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| N | Czech village of first order, reporting of victory year (7) | Vnorovy | 25%
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| R | Bulgarian city at the start of steppe area (6) | Vratsa | 25%
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| T | Range of hills in Slovakia reveal a century in which relations are turned against the normal flow (7) | Vtáčnik | 25%
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| V | Garden of the king, a village in Ukraine (8) | Vvedenka | 25%
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| X | Affirmative city farm in the Philippines (12) | VXY Urban Farm | 25%
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| Z | Russian village which the Axis infiltrate in greater numbers (7) | Vzmorye | 25%
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| S | Television in town of the Czech Republic (6) | Vsetín | 13%
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| J | MTV presenter at ska concert in German says yes to parking enclosure at Antarctic mountain (15) | Vjatskajatoppen | 0%
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| K | In Russian town, is there a file of things we do the wrong way? No, we're told, but ultimately find out the answer is yes (8) | Vkhodnoy | 0%
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| P | A din heard before a Yes vote is called out, a.k.a. Left Yes, trademark of a lake in Uzbekistan (17) | Vpadina Ayakalytma | 0%
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