| BATAVIA | Capital of the former colony of Dutch East Indies; present-day Jakarta, Indonesia |
| RANGOON | What was the name of the capital of the former Burma (7) |
| DUTCH | The former colony of the ___East Indies became Indonesia in 1949 (5) |
| ELAAIUN | Capital of the former Spanish Sahara; largest city of the disputed territory of Western Sahara also |
| TBILISI | The capital of the former Soviet state of Georgia |
| GORILLA | Brutal fellow, cur ultimately hostile in former colony (7) |
| NIGERIA | Queen almost upset one area in former colony |
| TIMOR | East ---, a former colony of Portugal, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands (5) |
| INDONESIA | Largest island country in the world, formerly (until 1949) known as the Dutch East Indies (9) |
| VANDIEMEN | Anthony ?, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1636-45 |
| IMARI | The style of porcelain exported from the Japanese port of Kyushu and reaching Europe by means of the Dutch East India Company |
| GUINEA | Former colony of France in West Africa, on the Atlantic (6) |
| PETRA | Ancient city in the south of present-day Jordan; capital of the former Nabataean kingdom (5) |
| GOA | State in W. India, a former colony of Portugal (3) |
| ADEN | Capital of the former (1967-90) republic of South Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula near the entrance to the Red Sea (4) |
| RHEIMS | Town on the Seine that was the capital of the former province of Champagne (6) |
| ANGKOR | Large area of ruins of NW Cambodia containing ... Thom, the capital of the former Khmer Empire (6) |
| DEI | Dutch East Indies (3) |
| VIENNA | Capital of the former Habsburg empire and current home of The Spanish Riding School (6) |
| SEATRADE | Business of the Dutch East India Company |
