| COMMONWEALTH | Association of countries (12) |
| BLOC | Association of countries |
| THECOMMONWEALTH | Hotel match women arranged for association of countries |
| PHILATELISTS | Their impressions of countries may be valuable (12) |
| LATINAMERICA | First section of lambada gets extended in a number of countries including Mexico (5,7) |
| EXPECTATIONS | Trust a number of countries without capital offering people hope (12) |
| PATRONSAINTS | They're looked up to for guidance in a lot of countries, as French chefs ain't getting the point (6, |
| SOUTHAMERICA | With so much area, it could become this major group of countries |
| REGIONS | Administrative divisions, areas or districts of countries; portions of space; parts of bodies around organs; or, spheres of interest (7) |
| EUROPE | Group of countries to regret backing most of sporting contest (6) |
| EMPIRE | Conglomerate of countries, half of them ripe for change (6) |
| EUPHORBIA | Group of countries' irrational fear about closure of nuclear plant |
| ASIA | A system of measurements used by a group of countries |
| OPEC | An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum. |
| ECLOGUE | Symbol of Netherlands amongst group of countries shown by European poem |
| TWO | Number of countries which have hosted the Summer Olympics at a city south of the equator |
| ADIEU | Announcement of exit from excellent group of countries including Germany? |
| USSR | Group of countries that Russia and Ukraine were part of (abbr.) |
| BRICS | Group of countries once expected to drive twenty-first-century economic growth, whose name is an acronym of its five members |
| MANDATED | Asian and African possessions of countries defeated in the First World War, redistributed by the League of Nations, were known as ___ territories (8) |
