| WESTEDMONTONMAO | Alberta attraction due to its communist ways? |
| CASTRO | Old communist way to usurp one in capital |
| JASPER | ___ National Park (Alberta attraction) |
| MALL | West Edmonton ___ (Alberta attraction) |
| ANDROPOV | Yuri ___, leader of the Soviet Union (as General Secretary of its Communist Party) who succeeded Leonid Brezhnev in 1982 (8) |
| LAOS | It's communist |
| VETCH | Common -; scrambling purplish wildflower and forage crop on the RHS "perfect for pollinators" list, used as a soil fertiliser due to its ability to make its own nitrates (5) |
| ELDER | Thought to derive from the Anglo-Saxon for "fire" due to its hollow stems used to blow air on embers, the tree Sambucus, with berries/flowers used for cordial, jam, presse and wine (5) |
| SILICONE | Stupid shape said to be due to its implant? (8) |
| REDPLANET | What nickname is given to Mars, due to its colour? (3,6) |
| RAGWORT | Yellow wild flower considered a weed due to its toxicity to livestock and horses (7) |
| EURO | It's sometimes referred to as the single currency due to its international use |
| MOLE | Burrowing mammal associated with the Jacobean toast "to the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat" due to its alleged part in the death of William III (4) |
| BUTTERDOME | Edmonton... Nickname of the Universiade Pavilion (the University of Alberta's multipurpose complex) due to its yellow rectangular shape which resembles something found in the kitchen |
| PITBULL | Name for a type of dog descended from bulldogs and terriers that has (unfairly, according to some) a "dangerous" reputation due to its use in dogfighting (7) |
| SELENIUM | Element named by Berzelius after a Greek word for "moon" due to its similarity to tellurium, named after a Latin word for "Earth" (8) |
| SUNSTONE | A name given to the gem aventurine due to its red and metallic chatoyant flecks which reflect the light (8) |
| RHOMBUS | Calisson- or lozenge-shaped parallelogram known as a diamond due to its resemblance to said shape represented on a playing card (7) |
| BURR | Small, round seed vessel that sticks to clothes and animal fur, due to its little hooks (4) |
| HYDROGEN | The first element to appear in the periodic table, due to its atomic number of 1 (8) |
