| BLOEMFONTEIN | Capital of Free State province, South Africa (12) |
| INDEPENDENTS | They take up a lot of seats in the House of Free State initially (12) |
| GOVERNOR | Ruler of state, province etc (8) |
| SOWETO | Large urban area in Gauteng province, South Africa, comprising several townships lying south-west of Johannesburg (6) |
| EASTLONDON | River port in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (4,6) |
| NATAL | KwaZulu-___ province, South Africa |
| MOSSELBAY | Port and seaside resort in Cape Province, South Africa (6,3) |
| UITENHAGE | Summer resort town in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa (9) |
| KRUGERSDORP | Gold mining town in Gauteng Province, South Africa (11) |
| ANSAN | City in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, housing Seoul Institute of the Arts |
| LEON | Spanish province south of Asturias (4) |
| RHAETIA | Ancient Roman Alpine province south of the Danube river (7) |
| BLANKCHEQUES | All signed up and ready for the cash amount for Free State Czechs (5,7) |
| ICHEON | City in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, that is home to the world's second largest memory chip maker |
| DRESDEN | The capital of the Free State of Saxony in Germany (7) |
| BOERS | Which people, after the Great Trek of 1835-37, settled in the Orange Free State in South Africa? (5) |
| OANGERIVERCOLON | What the South African province Free State was called a century ago |
| CURRIECUP | South Africa rugby union tournament last won in 2016 by Free State Cheetahs (6,3) |
| NAIPAUL | Booker and Nobel Prize-winning author of A House for Mr Biswas, In a Free State and The Enigma of Arrival (7) |
| ALLANLAMB | South Africa-born England Test cricketer who played for Orange Free State in 1988 (5,4) |
