| ABD | Ceded the throne: abbr. |
| DECKLEEDGED | Bordering on coarse to have ceded the keg led the way (6,5) |
| PUNTED | Ceded the pigskin, in a way |
| HBO | Cable channel that airs the show in 18a and other shows like Game of Thrones: Abbr. |
| MUNICH | Which 1938 agreement ceded the Sudetenland to Germany? (6) |
| GUAM | Largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands in the N Pacific, ceded to the US by Spain in 1898 (4) |
| KALININGRAD | Russian port, formerly a main German naval base on the Baltic, ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 (11) |
| GIBRALTAR | Overseas territory of the UK ceded by Spain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht |
| PHILIPPINES | South-east Asian country which rebelled against Spanish rule in 1896 and against the US, to whom the country had been ceded, in 1899 (11) |
| TRAPANI | Port in N.W. Sicily, a Carthaginian naval base ceded to the Romans after the First Punic War (7) |
| THESSALY | Ancient region of northern Greece taken by the Turks in the late 14th century and ceded back in 1881 (8) |
| RECESSION | About the ceded territory, it is over now according to the latest news (9) |
| HELIGOLAND | One of the North Frisian Islands in the North Sea that was ceded by Britain to Germany in 1890 in exchange for Zanzibar (10) |
| ELPASO | City ceded to Texas in the Compromise of 1850 |
| RHODES | Island in the Aegean Sea (540 sq miles; pop about 115,0000, ceded to Greece in 1947 (6) |
| SUDETENLAND | Area of Czechoslovakia ceded to Germany by the Munich Agreement, 1938 (11) |
| LOLLAND | Which island in the Baltic Sea, long disputed between Denmark and Sweden, was ceded to Sweden in 1645? (7) |
| RECOMMENDED | Ceded that the norm to me could be advocated (11) |
| NICE | Large city on the Riviera, ceded by Sardinaia to France in 1860 (4) |
| NEVADA | US state (110,540 sq miles; pop about 3 million), ceded to the US by Mexico in 1848 (6) |
