| WAGONTRAINS | Early visitors to what is now the Las Vegas Strip |
| SANDWICH | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Islands, name given by James Cook to what is now the Hawaiian chain (8) |
| ALADDINCASINO | It's on the Las Vegas Strip |
| LITUP | Like the Las Vegas strip, at night |
| MIRAGE | Hotel/casino located on the Las Vegas Strip (6) |
| HOTELS | Many buildings along the Las Vegas Strip |
| RIO | Brazilian-themed casino on the Las Vegas Strip |
| MGM | ___ Grand (hotel on the Las Vegas Strip) |
| BAY | Mandalay ___ (hotel on the Las Vegas Strip) |
| LUXOR | Pyramidal hotel on the Las Vegas Strip |
| NEON | Gas on the Las Vegas Strip |
| NEUSTRIA | What was the western part of the kingdom of the Franks, roughly equivalent to what is now northern France? (8) |
| EEC | Original initials (from the 1957 Treaty of Rome) for what is now the European Community - as in The Tree Council! (1,1,1) |
| COMANECI | In 1976, Nadia ____ became the only Romanian winner of what is now the BBC World Sport Star of the Year award (8) |
| VIKINGS | Early visitors to the New World |
| TUVALU | End product is superior and provides endless value for what is now the Ellice Islands (6) |
| MOAB | An ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea, in what is now the SW part of Jordan |
| FINISTERRE | Peninsula in western Spain, former name of what is now the FitzRoy sea area in the UK Shipping Forecast (10) |
| OORT | Astronomer who proposed what is now the generally accepted model for the origin of comets (4) |
| BRONTOSAUR | Large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur of the genus Aptosaurus, which lived in what is now the US (10) |
