| PEKINGESE | Dog breed once kept by the Chinese Imperial Palace (9) |
| FORBIDDENCITY | Walled section in Beijing enclosing the Chinese imperial palace (9,4) |
| TENAM | Store record once kept by Dorothy (5) |
| DEPOT | Store record once kept by Dorothy (5) |
| RHODESIAN | and 13dn, Southern African dog breed once known as Van Rooyen's lion dog |
| RIDGEBACK | see 19dn, Southern African dog breed once known as Van Rooyen's lion dog |
| STBERNARD | Dog breed once employed for mountain rescue |
| FORBIDDEN | The ___ City, a walled section within Beijing, China, enclosing the Imperial Palace (9) |
| CHOPSTICK | Eating utensil used by the Chinese, Japanese and other people of East Asia (9) |
| PERIMETER | Verse once kept within safe bounds |
| TIBETANSPANIEL | Dog breed once called "the King Charles of the east" (7,7) |
| TERRIER | Smallish dog breed once used for hunting (7) |
| AKITA | Japanese dog breed once used to hunt bears |
| WHIPPET | Medium-sized, gentle dog breed once known as a "poor man's racehorse" (7) |
| DOBERMAN | Breed once known as the "Tax Collector's Dog" |
| AUSTRIA | In 1955 this European nation's treasure, the Spanish Riding School, returned to the Hofburg, the Habsburg imperial palace in Vienna |
| THREE | "The ___-Body Problem" (Hugo Award-winning novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin) |
| AGO | A game invented by the Chinese in the past (3) |
| MING | Chinese imperial dynasty founded in 1368 by Zhu Yuanzhang |
| TOKYO | Location of the Emperor of Japan's Imperial Palace |
