| AFARS | Djibouti was known before 1977 as the French Territory of the ... and the Issas (5) |
| ZAIRE | Democratic Republic of the Congo, before 1977 |
| MEDES | Unalterable code, the laws of the ... and the Persians |
| ISLES | Empty bar. It is his, with the French territory. (7,5) |
| INLET | Find a small bay in the French territory, initially (5) |
| DJIBOUTI | African country formerly known as the Territory of the Afars and the Issas |
| BRITISHSUBJECT | What a citizen of Canada was called before 1977 |
| ILOVENEWYORK | Song written by Steve Karmen in 1977 as part of an advertising campaign |
| ORACLE | American multinational computer company founded by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) |
| JEDI | Word after Return of the and The Last in titles of Star Wars movies |
| CABRIOLET | One way to travel from California to South American city over heart of Caribbean and the French Territory (9) |
| BRITISH | Empty bar. It is his, with the French territory. (7,5) |
| DEAD | And 24 and 26 Across Former UEA student, Brian Bowles, is a voiceover artist who has appeared in ... Ringers, The Lord of the ... and The Inspector ... Mysteries (4 and 5 and 6) |
| NIMES | Prefecture of the Gare department of Southern France, known as the 'French Rome' (5) |
| BURMA | Name by which the Union of Myanmar was officially known before 1989 (5) |
| TOKYO | Japanese city known before 1868 as Edo ('gate of the estuary') (5) |
| HAITI | Which country was formerly known as the French colony of Saint-Domingue? (5) |
| SUCRE | Legal capital of Bolivia, known before Spanish conquest as Chuquisaca (5) |
| ANDISSAS | see 23ac, French Territory of the ?, name of present-day Djibouti from 1967-77 (5,3,5) |
| NOVEL | Of a new kind; different from anything seen or known before. (5) |
