| BOERWAR | Conflict whose resolution dissolved the Orange Free State |
| BOERS | Early settlers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State (5) |
| DEWET | Afrikaner commander who led the Orange Free State army during the Second Boer War (2,3) |
| NATAL | About one's birth next to the Orange Free State (5) |
| UITLANDERS | Early British immigrants in the Transvaal or Orange Free State (Afrikaans) |
| DICTATOR | Excerpt from verdict at Orange Free State doesn't have one! (8) |
| FORESEEN | There's no regatta in Orange Free State as predicted (8) |
| BLOEMFONTEIN | Capital of Orange Free State, South Africa (12) |
| BOER | Old Orange Free State settler |
| ALLANLAMB | South Africa-born England Test cricketer who played for Orange Free State in 1988 (5,4) |
| STATE | Orange Free ___ (province of South Africa) |
| FLA | Hardly an orange-free st. |
| PEKOE | Black tea, such as the "orange" variety named in honour of the House of Orange, rather than the fruit (5) |
| IRISH | The ___ Rovers (folk band that played "The Orange and the Green") |
| BOOTES | From the Greek meaning "ox-driver" and containing the orange giant Arcturus, the Herdsman constellation (6) |
| NAGPUR | Indian city, winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, sometimes known as the 'orange city' (6) |
| LESOTHO | Kingdom surrounded by the Republic of South Africa at the head of the Orange river (7) |
| PIERID | From the Latin for "Muse", a butterfly in a family that includes the brimstone, cabbage-white, clouded yellow, cloudless sulphur, creamy marblewing and the orange-tip (6) |
| ZACHBRYAN | Heading South country singer whose Something in the Orange hit the Billboard Top 10 in 2023: 2 wds. |
| PITH | The white part of the orange (4) |
