| BERMUDA | British colony off the Carolina coast (7) |
| BERMUDAS | Islands off the Carolina coast |
| CAMWARD | Goaltender from Saskatchewan who played for the Carolina Hurricanes |
| DARLING | Scott ___ former ice hockey goaltender who played for the Carolina Hurricanes |
| HOTTEST | The Carolina Reaper, among chili peppers |
| NORFOLKISLAND | Former British penal colony off the east coast of Australia (7,6) |
| SCIENCE | School subject that is included in the Carolinas, along with English (7) |
| CATAWBA | Siouan language of the Carolinas |
| TOBACCO | Cash crop in the Carolinas |
| ESTATES | Holdings in the Carolinas? |
| DEVILSISLAND | Former penal colony off the coast of French Guiana (6,6) |
| ISLAND | Former penal colony off the coast of French Guiana (6,6) |
| DEVILS | Former penal colony off the coast of French Guiana (6,6) |
| BASSROCK | Island home to a large gannet colony off the coast of North Berwick (4,4) |
| GRENADA | Island state in the Caribbean, in the Windward Islands; a former British colony (7) |
| STKITTS | Site of the first British colony in the Caribbean, 1624 |
| ROBBENISLAND | Penal settlement and former leper colony off the Cape Peninsula, South Africa (6,6) |
| CAPEVERDE | Which former Portuguese colony off the westernmost point of Africa became independent in 1975? (4,5) |
| GEORGIA | 'Peach State' of the south-eastern US, founded as a British colony in 1732 (7) |
| LESOTHO | Which country was formerly a British colony called Basutoland? (7) |
