| DUTCH | Language of the Netherlands |
| ARUBA | One of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Curacao, the Netherlands and St Martin (5) |
| HAGUE | The _, seat of government of the Netherlands; location of the International Court of Justice (5) |
| ROTTERDAM | Largely destroyed in the Second World War, which of the Netherlands' cities was chartered in the 14th century and is now one of the largest ports in the world? (9) |
| THEHAGUE | Seat of government of the Netherlands; location of the International Court of Justice (3,5) |
| DIARY | Anne Frank's journal of her life in hiding during Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, The ... Of A Y |
| TULIP | With the worlds largest permanent display at the Keukenhof and used to symbolise perfect or deep love, the national flower of the Netherlands (5) |
| ORANGE | The royal family of the Netherlands is the House of - (6) |
| AMSTERDAM | The capital of the Netherlands; title of a novel by Ian McEwan; or, with "Old", a brand of mature Gouda (9) |
| CADENCE | Beat the bounder upsetting the EEC meeting around the capital of the Netherlands (7) |
| SABA | The 'Unspoiled Queen' of the Caribbean, forming an island territory of the Netherlands (4) |
| HOOK | The -- of Holland, a cape on the south-west coast of the Netherlands (4) |
| SINTMAARTEN | A constituent country of the Netherlands, in the Caribbean, the capital of which is Philipsburg (4,7) |
| ZEE | Former inlet of the North Sea in the north coast of the Netherlands (3) |
| ZUIDER | Former inlet of the North Sea in the north coast of the Netherlands (6) |
| MAASTRICHT | Capital of the Limburg province of the Netherlands |
| DYKE | The low-lying land of the Netherlands is protected from flooding by this type of embankment |
| DUTCHCAP | A woman's lace bonnet with triangular flaps on either side, characteristic of the national dress of the Netherlands (5,3) |
| BONAIRE | Self-governing island territory of the Netherlands 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Venezuela; chief town, Kralendijk (7) |
| ANNEFRANK | Jewish girl who kept a diary about the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War (4,5) |
