| SUEZ | Canal in the Middle East, centre of an international crisis in 1956 (4) |
| AGADIR | Moroccan port which became the centre of an international incident in 1911 when a gunboat arrived to protect German interests |
| PANIC | Lose cool leads in play about News International crisis (5) |
| EDEN | Anthony **** , British prime minister who presided over the Suez crisis in 1956 (4) |
| CORE | In the disco refit is the centre of an apple! (4) |
| ORLY | A suburb of southern Paris, location of an international airport (4) |
| ERIE | Canal in the folk song "Low Bridge, Everybody Down" |
| GOLD | With the Latin name aurum, a metal gilded onto some styles of Satsuma or Imari ware for decorative accents; or, the centre of an archery target (4) |
| TEST | Informal examination of an international match (4) |
| YOLK | The centre of an egg (4) |
| CLAN | Bring up internal crisis in family (4) |
| RIALTO | It is a stone-arch bridge that crosses over the narrowest point of the Grand Canal in Venice. It is also the oldest bridge across that canal. In The Merchant of Venice (act 1, scene 3), Shylock says, |
| ACME | Outstanding clips mark crisis in history |
| SCALA | A ladder-like structure, such as one of the spiral canals in the cochlea |
| PUPIL | From the Latin meaning "doll", the black aperture at the centre of an iris, so named from the tiny reflections of oneself when looking into another person's eyes (5) |
| NEUTRON | One of the types of subatomic particle at the centre of an atom (7) |
| ROTARY | --- Club, a local branch of an international association founded in the US in 1905 to promote community service (6) |
| ORCHESTRA | The Chamber Anglia was founded in 2001 by the UEA for professional musicians of an international standard (9) |
| FALKLANDISLANDS | The U.K.'s first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, was re-elected in 1983 largely owing to her handling of the crisis in this territory |
| ASHFORD | Town in Kent, England, the location of an international railway station (7) |
