| 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) |
| BERCHTESGADEN | Resort town in Germany in the Bavarian Alps associated with Adolf Hitler (13) |
| AZTEC | Civilisation which dominated central Mexico from the 14th-16th centuries (5) |
| TURBAN | This headgear consists of a length of fabric wound around the head. It originated in the Old World, although Native Americans also originated a form. European men wore them for a time in the 14th cent |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| ASSYRIA | Emerging as an independent state in the 14th century BCE, it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria, before declining after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I about |
| 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) |
| JENNYRYAN | Chaser on the ITV game show The Chase who appeared in the 14th series of Celebrity MasterChef in 2019 |
| BLACKDEATH | A plague that killed millions of people in Europe in the 14th century (5,5) |
| BLACK | A deadly epidemic of the bubonic plague in the 14th century (5,5) |
| DEATH | A deadly epidemic of the bubonic plague in the 14th century (5,5) |
| STRAUSS | Get out of Germany in ways of 21's creator (7) |
