| HOMABAY | One of the counties in the former Nyanza Region (7) |
| WYOMING | Three of the counties in this US state are Sublette, Sweetwater and Uinta |
| SLIGO | One of the counties in Connacht (5) |
| EMBU | One of the counties in Kenya (4) |
| HERRINGCHOKER | Nyanza deli and bakery (7,6) |
| BIGSPRUCE | Nyanza brewing company (3,6) |
| BOONE | Name of eight counties in the central and eastern U.S. |
| EPONYMOUS | Like George Washington, vis-a-vis 30 counties in the US |
| PARISHES | Counties in the Pelican State |
| DELI | Nyanza's Herring Choker emporium |
| MALVERN | Range of hills in the counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire (7) |
| WAVENEY | River that forms part of the boundary between the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk (7) |
| MUNSTER | Irish province which includes the counties of Cork and Kerry (7) |
| CHESHIRE | One of the counties forming the North West of England; or, a type of cheese (8) |
| DONEGAL | One of the counties of Ulster, but not Northern Ireland (7) |
| LOTHIAN | Scottish Lowland region on the North Sea shore, divided into three historic counties in medieval times (7) |
| ADENINE | Constituent base of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, paired in the former with thymine (7) |
| APPARAT | The Communist Party organisation in the former Soviet Union and other states (7) |
| MOLDOVA | Fungus, we hear, with eggs found in the former Romanian region (7) |
| DEVON | One of the counties noted for traditional cream teas (5) |
