| CUSTOMSUNION | A trade bloc of nations, composed of a free trade area with a common external tariff (7,5) |
| COMMONMARKET | Free trade area with no tariffs (6,6) |
| ABN | Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations |
| THEFREEWORLD | Term used during the Cold War to refer to the Western Bloc of non-Communist countries collectively (3,4,5) |
| SONNYPROBONO | Album title of a free concert from saxophonist Rollins? |
| SEDGEWARBLER | A European bird of reed beds and swampy areas, with a streaked brownish plumage and white eye stripes (5,7) |
| AFOOLSERRAND | Area with a type of gold taken to task for getting the newcomer to order the striped paint (1,4'1,6) |
| COUNTYANTRIM | Geographical area with a point in Meath and in Northern Ireland (6,6) |
| OXEYE | What is a common name for any of the plants with flowers composed of a disc with marginal rays, such |
| FULLHOUSE | Hand composed of a pair and a three-of-a-kind |
| BESSEMER | Alabama city where Amazon "interfered with [its] employees' exercise of a free and reasoned choice" in a warehouse-worker unionization vote, per a November, 2021, N.L.R.B. ruling |
| UNIVALVE | Of a mollusc, having a shell composed of a single piece (8) |
| GEORGETHET | "A Tyrant...unfit to be the ruler of a free people," according to a 1776 declaration |
| OVOLO | In architecture, a moulding with the rounded part composed of a quarter circle (5) |
| TWOPLY | Description of yarn composed of a pair of strands or wooden board in layers (3-3) |
| PALAU | Micronesian nation composed of hundreds of islands |
| MESON | Subatomic particle intermediate in mass between an electron and a proton, typically composed of a quark and an antiquark (5) |
| FLAIL | Threshing tool consisting of a free-swinging metal or wooden bar (swingle or swiple) attached to a long handle (5) |
| FIJI | South Pacific nation composed of more than 300 islands |
| PACIFICRIM | Trade area of expanding importance |
