| GTE | Co. that became part of Verizon |
| SOCOTRA | Island near the mouth of the Gulf of Aden that became part of South Yemen in 1967 (7) |
| WILLESDEN | Former municipal borough of Middlesex that became part of the borough of Brent in 1965 (9) |
| FREIGHT | Company formed from part of BR's Trainload division, that became part of EWS (8,7) |
| MAINLINE | Company formed from part of BR's Trainload division, that became part of EWS (8,7) |
| HAYES | Middlesex town that became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in 1965 and was the erstwhile home of EMI Records |
| SCONE | Derived either from the Dutch meaning "beautiful bread" or the name of the stone upon which Scottish kings were crowned, a cake that became part of a cream tea (5) |
| STEPNEY | Former Metropolitan Borough that became part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in 1965 (7) |
| UDAIPUR | Former state of NW India that became part of Rajasthan in 1947 |
| NASH | Car company that became part of American Motors |
| CUE | Magazine that became part of New York |
| AMOCO | Oil company that became part of BP in 1998 (5) |
| MIDLAND | Major UK bank that became part of HSBC in 1999 (7) |
| CAIRNGORMS | Mountain range that became part of Scotland's second national park in 2003 (10) |
| IRONBRIDGE | Small town on the River Severn in Shropshire that became part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986 |
| AOL | Part of Verizon Media |
| ACT | Mechanism by which the Melanesian west of the island of New Guinea became part of the Indonesia, 1969's ... of Free Choice |
| BENGAL | Region of India that, in part, became part of Pakistan after partition and then, in 1971, Bangladesh (6) |
| ASSIMILATED | (Of immigrants) became part of the community (11) |
| LOUTH | Co ____ became part of Leinster rather than Ulster in 1596 |
