| MEISTERSINGER | A burgher poet or musician of Germany in the 14th - 16th centuries (13) |
| RIDGE | Land up in capital of Germany in the course of journey |
| VIRTUOSI | Artists or musicians of the highest calibre (8) |
| RENAISSANCE | Culture developed in the 14th-16th centuries (11) |
| AZTEC | Civilisation which dominated central Mexico from the 14th-16th centuries (5) |
| BERCHTESGADEN | Resort town in Germany in the Bavarian Alps associated with Adolf Hitler (13) |
| RODIN | Celebrated at a current exhibition at the Grand Palais marking the centenary of his death, the founding father of modern sculpture whose works include The Burghers of Calais and The Thinker (5) |
| BALZO | It is a turban-like Italian cap of the 15th and 16th centuries. The base consisted of a metal plate or leather covered with a coloured fabric, usually silk. |
| OTTOMAN | Created in Anatolia (Asia Minor), this empire grew to be one of the most powerful states in the world during the 15th and 16th centuries. It came to an end in 1922, when it was replaced by the Turkish |
| KAISERSLAUTERN | City in southwest Germany, in the Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate, that became the largest US garrison outside the United States in the late 1940s |
| MIDGES | Flies, for the March of dimes, the head of Germany in (6) |
| FOKKER | Anthony, the 'Flying Dutchman', who made fighter aircraft for Germany in the First World War and later established companies in the US and the Netherlands (6) |
| SUBMARINES | Warships used by Germany in the Battle of the Atlantic, a conflict described by Churchill as the "U-boat peril" (10) |
| SHOCK | First stout drunk in Germany in the past - that'll come as a bolt out of the blue (5) |
| BIEDERMEIER | A style of furniture derived from French empire style common in Germany in the 19th century (11) |
| STRAUSS | Get out of Germany in ways of 21's creator (7) |
| RUHR | Traditionally, the chief coal mining and industrial region of Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia (4) |
| KOHL | Helmut __, chancellor widely credited with the unification of Germany in 1990 (4) |
| AGRA | City of northern India that served as capital of the Mughal Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries (4) |
| GOTHIC | Pertaining to a period of time from the 12th to 16th centuries, and particularly to an architectural style of which many examples can be seen in Palma, Mallorca, for instance, Palma Cathedral, Bellver |
