About the theme

European Capitals is the geography essentials — Paris, London, Rome, Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, Athens, Lisbon, Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest. The longer entries (Copenhagen, Bucharest, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Luxembourg) anchor the bigger grids; the four-letter Rome and Bern and the five-letter Paris hide in the filler. A reliable theme for anyone who's spent time studying a map of Europe.