| GELADA | Baboon of the Ethiopian highlands (6) |
| ARABICA | Coffee from the beans of a plant originally indigenous to the Ethiopian Highlands, higher quality than robusta (7) |
| ENSETE | Genus of the Ethiopian and Abyssinian bananas (6) |
| CHACMA | Large dark-grey baboon of southern and eastern Africa; Papio (or Chaeropithecus) ursinus (6) |
| HAILESELASSIE | A member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, this last emperor of Ethiopia never accepted the status of god accorded to him by the Rastafari movement (5,8) |
| MICHAELBUERK | Journalist whose coverage of the Ethiopian famine inspired the creation of Live Aid (7,5) |
| ABUNA | Title given to the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox church; from Arabic, 'our father' (5) |
| ABYSSINIA | Early name of the Ethiopian Empire (9) |
| MANDRILL | Large baboon of Africa |
| ADOWA | Battle of ___ (alternative spelling), the 1896 clash at which the Ethiopian forces of Emperor Menelik II defeated the Italians (5) |
| MONKEY | Baboon pulling a muscle puts a spanner in the works (6,6) |
| WRETCH | Baboon pulling a muscle puts a spanner in the works (6,6) |
| RAFIKI | Baboon in The Lion King (6) |
| RASTA | Member of the religious movement in which the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is viewed as an incarnation of God |
| ARAD | Home of a botanical farm gifted to the Ethiopian Jewish community by B'nai B'rith to commemorate Operation Solomon, the 1991 airlift that transported more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel |
| GIBBON | Ape/baboon regularly caught in trap (6) |
| IMFENE | Claims to be Iron Man athlete ends a baboon (6) |
| CANAPE | Party food tin taken by baboon? (6) |
| BONOBO | Primate - sick baboon - getting blood transfusion (6) |
| BAMBOO | Panda's favourite bottomless baboon pinching male (6) |
