| NUUK | Capital city of Greenland, known by the Danish name Godthab until 1979 (4) |
| GRONLAND | Known in Inuit as Kalaallit Nunaat, the Danish name for the world's largest island (that isn't a continent) (8) |
| DEVA | Name by which the city of Chester was known by the ancient Romans (4) |
| MARS | Houseleek cultivar known by the name of the Red Planet (4) |
| CNUT | Viking who became king of England in 994, best known by the English version of his name (4) |
| IRAN | Country that was ruled by a shah until 1979 |
| ERTE | Artist known by the French pronunciation of his initials |
| LAMB | Former England Test cricketer (1982-92) known by the nickname 'Legga' (5,4) |
| HIGH | _ _ _ Performance Estate, this Lancia Beta derivative was better known by the initials, HPE (4) |
| SHAH | Despot until 1979 |
| ERIC | - the Red, discoverer of Greenland |
| ORESUND | Danish name of the narrow strait known in English as the Sound (7) |
| DENISHEALEY | British Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 until 1979 (5,6) |
| HAAGEN | Half of an ice cream brand with a fake Danish name |
| ALICANTE | Port city of SE Spain founded by the ancient Greeks as Akra Leuke ('white peak') and later known by the Romans as Lucentum (8) |
| TAILBONE | Lowermost segment of the vertebral column, known by the technical name coccyx (8) |
| MECCA | Sacred city of Saudi Arabia, once known by the ancient name Macoraba (5) |
| RHODESIA | Name of Zimbabwe until 1979 (8) |
| KARENBLIXEN | Danish novelist, also known by the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, noted for the 1937 memoir Out of Africa (5,6) |
| HOUSEHOLDNAME | A person whose name is well known by the public (9,4) |
