Answers relate to cities or towns who have a football club from English & Scottish Prem, Championship, League 1 & 2, Welsh & Northern Irish Prem.
1. Blooming Stingier (9)
2. Do not push this one (9)
3. Creepy (7)
4. Where smoking is permitted (8)
5. Divide the country (10)
6. Cook in the open (9)
7. There's a blow from the south (7)
8. Destroy, injure and strike (10)
9. Stout feathers (9)
10. A grandmother (5)
11. Dent enclosure (8)
12. Playing area takes a hit (8)