| BALKANPENINSULA | Area of southeastern Europe whose northern boundary is often given as the Danube, Sava and Kupa rivers |
| TITI | Tree of low-lying coastal areas of southeastern United States having glossy leaves and racemes of fragrant white flowers. |
| BOSNIAANDHERZEGOVINA | Country of southeastern Europe |
| KOSOVO | Partially-recognised state in Southeastern Europe, whose capital is Pristina (6) |
| EOS | Greek word for dawn, given as the genus name of a species of lory with red-and-blue plumage, reminiscent of the colours of the sky at daybreak (3) |
| TSUSHIMA | Name of the archipelago off the coast of southeastern Japan in the Korea Strait. In 1905 a Russian fleet was defeated by Japan in a battle of the same name, which took place north of the islands. (8) |
| DADA | French word for "hobby-horse" that, following its random selection from the pages of a dictionary using a paperknife, was given as the name of a nihilistic art movement co-founded by Jean Arp and Tris |
| AMMONITE | Ram's-horn-like cephalopod fossil whose name is given as the title of a film based on the pioneering palaeontologist Mary Anning (8) |
| CAELUM | Latin word for "heaven, sky" and unconnectedly "chisel", hence given as the name of the Chisel constellation (6) |
| ZIMBABWE | Country whose northern and southern borders are the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers (8) |
| BELGRADE | City at the confluence of the Danube and Sava |
| HAYFEVER | Common name of allergic rhinitis or pollinosis, given as the title of a play by Noel Coward (3,5) |
| FAME | A word for celebrity, renown or stardom that is given as the title of a 1980 musical film (4) |
| EAT | Word, given as the title of one of Nigel Slater's cookbooks, meaning "consume, devour, munch" (3) |
| UNO | Italian and Spanish word for "one", given as the name of a card game (3) |
| SOOT | Bistre-making black smut in a chimney, hence given as the name of the sweep in happy families (4) |
| DINOSAUR | This site is a provincial park in the badlands of southeastern Alberta that is known for its extensive fossil beds. It shares its name with the ancient reptiles whose remains have been found there. It |
| UPAS | Large tree of southeastern Asia also called the ipoh whose sap is used as an arrow poison |
| BULGARIA | Country whose northern border is largely defined by the Danube |
| CLUELESS | A synonym of helpless, ignorant, oblivious, uninformed or without knowledge, given as the title of a comedy film with Alicia Silverstone (8) |
