| EMACIATE | European spies held in China |
| CINEMA | American spies held workers back in the movies (6) |
| CISTERCIAN | Man following order spies held inside tank |
| EMACIATED | Half-starved spies held by English couple died |
| CRITERIA | Spies held ritual and registered standards (8) |
| QUONGTART | Which Australian merchant and entrepreneur was born in China in 1850, died in 1903 and was active in |
| EXPLOSIVE | Gunpowder, in use by the 9th century in China and the 13th century in the West, was the first known |
| TUYOUYOU | First woman in China to win a Nobel prize - second person in France and in GB (twice) |
| YANGTZE | Flowing through the Three Gorges and known in China as Chang JiAng, the longest river in Asia and thirdlongest in the world (7) |
| FRIESLAND | Get lost in South Africa, in China, in part of Netherlands (9) |
| BASS | Kissinger, in "Nixon in China" |
| DELFT | Money comes in handy in China (5) |
| CATHAY | 60% of Thais invested in bank in China (6) |
| PORCELAIN | Cop in real mess in China (9) |
| LAPP | European in China upset over pressure |
| ASIANFLU | Strain of influenza believed to have originated in China and which spread worldwide in the 1950s (5, |
| KUNGFU | Fighting in China with knight hiding foreign article in the middle of refuge (4,2) |
| TAIPAN | Foreign businessman in China beginning to pine for wife in nearby country (6) |
| YANGTSE | River flowing to the East China Sea near Shanghai that is the longest in China (7) |
| WUSHU | Competitive full-contact sport developed in China in 1949 and having two disciplines: taolu and sand |
