| DAWNREDWOOD | Coniferous tree (metasequoia) known only as a fossil until it was found growing in China in 1941! (4,7) |
| DINOSAUR | Describe someone unable to adapt to new circumstances as a fossil? |
| OOLONG | Loves pine leaves growing in China |
| KOALA | Principally known only as lovable Australian? |
| MISTLETOE | Known in French as "gui", a whiteberried parasitic shrub found growing in the crowns of host trees i |
| TORCH | What kind of object was the logo of the Conservative Party until it was replaced by a tree in 2006? (5) |
| QUONGTART | Which Australian merchant and entrepreneur was born in China in 1850, died in 1903 and was active in |
| PORTAL | It was found behind a filing cabinet on the 7 1/2 floor of a Manhattan office building in the film" |
| HMASCANBERRA | Which RAN heavy cruiser served from 1928 until it was sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942? (4, |
| GREIG | Tony ____ was England captain until it was known that he had recruited players for Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket |
| ALGA | It might be found growing in botanical gardens (4) |
| BIOGAS | ______ differs from natural gas in that it is a renewable energy source produced biologically through anaerobic digestion rather than a fossil fuel (6) |
| FORTLAMY | Capital of Chad until it was renamed N'Djamena (4-4) |
| AUG | Mo. that was called Sextilis until it was renamed after a Roman emperor |
| SUDAN | Country which was Africa's largest until it was divided in 2011 (5) |
| HANOVER | From 1635 until it was dissolved in 1918, this Germanic royal dynasty provided many of Europe's mona |
| PORTUGAL | Until it was annexed by Indonesia, East Timor was an overseas province of this European nation |
| SUGAR | It was found in a loaf, sweet! (5) |
| SITU | In ___ (in the place where it was found) |
| ETUI | It may hold needles on the tree - but only as a present |