% replaces any number of letters (la% - lake, lamp)_ replaces one letter (ca_ - car, cat)

Other crossword clues for answer "CITIES"

CITIES
With 38A, theme of this puzzle
Surprise and Independence, e.g.
Tour t-shirt listings
A lot of people live here
Ports, for example
Most of them have their own halls
Tampa and Tempe, et al.
End word in a Dickens title
Vatican and Panama
Eugene and Gary
St. Louis and St. Paul
Metropolitan areas
Two in a Dickens title
Boston and Chicago
Florence and Charlotte
St. Louis and St. Petersburg, for two
New York and Boston
Boston and Buffalo
Pierre and Eugene
Sites with skylines
Dickens title pair
Dots on a globe
Big dots on a state map
A Tale of Two ___.
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
St. Paul and St. Louis.
Dickens wrote about two.
Where most Americans live
Thine alabaster ___ gleam: Bates
Municipalities
Chevy Chase and others
They have their limits
Washington and Lincoln
Talking Heads song about urban areas?
___, like dreams, are made of desires and fears: Italo Calvino
Dots on a map
Madison and Jackson, e.g.
Freetown and Libreville, for two
Washington and Lincoln, e.g.
Minneapolis and Saint Paul
Atlas dots
End of a Dickens title
London, Baltimore and Paris
Charlotte and Charlottesville
Detroit and Buffalo, e.g.
Gary, Norman and Eugene
Population centers
Mayors' domains