| BENGAL | East ...... , once the name given to Bangladesh (6) |
| REFUGE | Shelter one who is fleeing abandoned by the East once (6) |
| EENDRACHTLAND | Named after Dirk Hartog's ship, what was once the name for the entire Australian mainland? (13) |
| KELP | Seaweed to keep left in for the East once (4) |
| RISES | Gets up a sort of series the East once abandoned (5) |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| TITHES | What was the name given to taxes payable to the church, abolished in the 19th century? (6) |
| VESPER | From the Latin for "evening" and root of the word "west", the name given to Venus at sunset (6) |
| WEIMAR | What was the name given to the German republic between 1919 and 1933? (6) |
| PAMPAS | What is the name given to the vast grassy plains of South America? (6) |
| ABSURD | 'Theatre of the -', name given to the plays of a group of dramatists including Beckett and Pinter (6) |
| DOGLEG | The name given to a golf hole where the fairway has a bend (3-3) |
| CAPEOF | The name given by Bartholomeu Dias to the southern tip of Africa (4,2,6) |
| STORMS | The name given by Bartholomeu Dias to the southern tip of Africa (4,2,6) |
| OFAVON | The name given by Ben Jonson to Shakespeare (4,2,4) |
| HARVEST | From the Old English meaning "autumn", the cutting and gathering of crops during the approach to the aforesaid season, or the name given to its corresponding full moon (7) |
| THEELBOW | What is the name given to the narrowing of the course just before the finish line of the Aintree Gra |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
| ISIS | The name given to the River Thames flowing through Oxford is the same as the Egyptian goddess of fer |
| FLOUR | From a homophonic word for a bloom, in the sense "the best part", the name given to "the finest quality of ground wheat", aka milled grain, for making bread, cakes or pastry (5) |
