| ODORUSSELL | British Ambassador to the German Empire from 1871-84 (3,7) |
| RUSSELL | Odo ___, British Ambassador to the German Empire from 1871-84 (7) |
| BISMARCK | Otto von ?, Chancellor of the German Empire from 1871-90 |
| ORMSBYGORE | David ?, British Ambassador to the US from 1961-65 (6-4) |
| NAMIBIA | African country in which a campaign of extermination of native people was carried out by the German Empire from 1904 to 1908 (7) |
| EXCELLENCY | His or Her ___ , title given to a British ambassador accredited to a foreign country (10) |
| MANDELSON | Peter, British Ambassador to the United States since 2025 (9) |
| BUNDESRAT | Term applied to the federal legislative chamber of the German Empire (1871-1918) (9) |
| REICH | The first was the Holy Roman Empire, the second the regime lasting from 1871 until the end of WWI, and Nazi Germany was the Third ... |
| WEIMAR | City in Thuringia, Germany, that gave its name to the republic that replaced the German Empire in 1919 |
| CENTRALPOWERS | An alliance of the German Empire and Austria-hungary, signed in 1879 (7,6) |
| OTTO | ___ von Bismarck, Prussian statesman and first chancellor of the German empire (4) |
| HOARE | A British ambassador to Spain |
| KAISER | Wilhelm I and II and Frederick III all held this title as head of the German Empire |
| ELECTOR | One who has a vote, and title of certain nobles in the German empire (7) |
| JEANBEDELBOKASSA | The military ruler of the Central African Republic from 1966 and the Emperor of the Central African Empire from 1976 until he was overthrown in 1979 |
| BURSA | Turkish city, the capital of the Ottoman empire from the 1320s to 1402 (5) |
| METZ | City in North East France on the River Moselle, annexed to Germany from 1871 to 1918 (4) |
| ALSACELORRAINE | Area of France under German rule from 1871 to 1919 and 1940 to 1944 (6-8) |
| GOTHS | Which Germanic people invaded parts of the Roman Empire from the 3rd to the 5th century? (5) |
