and a miniature Italian city.

The theme was a cinch. GLEN is a Celtic word, and the others, DELL, DALE are Germanic from Thal, (source of our word for dollar, also). In these parts, the Hudson Valley, once very Dutch, also has Kill (Catskill, Fishkill, Peekskill, Wynantskill), which would have made it a real Wed. puzzle, but a NE thing.

The theme's tighter than you think—DELL COMPUTER is named after Michael Dell. You do get the one last name/two first names inconsistency, but they're all proper names that are synonyms of VALLEY! That's pretty tight. It's not two names and a word like CANYON, it's three names. I give the theme a thumbs-up.

Tinbeni, "decimated" used to mean "kill one-tenth of." (Oxford American labels that meaning "historical.") The word's meaning hasLÔ, FRÈRE, ECU, LYON and ÈTUI. My downfall was the UDINE, CONJ cross. Yucky!

@SfingiYup, deci = 10.Maybe the word in the clue should have been 'devastated' ... since, like Warsaw, Poland, St. Lo was reduced to ruble.

Having been to both places. Talked with "my elder's" who survived the the ruin during WWII and subsequent re-building, had I made the statement:"Boy, you guys were decimated." they would have laughed in my face, and corrected me."Kid, the destruction was almost complete."

In St. LO, on the Church of Our Lady there are still scars on the wall of the bombing and bloodshed that took place.(If you have seen the movie "The Longest Day" it is where the Red Buttons character hung when his parachute snagged on the building).

In Warsaw, they found