| DRYLAND | Firm ground for the US in the twenties (3,4) |
| ARTDECO | Style of design and interior decoration in Europe and the US in the 1920s and 1930s (3,4) |
| CHIP | Beck, played for the USA in Ryder Cup matches in 1989, 1991 and 1993 (4) |
| MORASS | No firm ground for men in service (6) |
| LOCOMOTIVE | See firm ground for original 9Ac 10Ac (10) |
| PHILLIP | The first motorcycle races at ... Island near Melbourne were held in the Twenties |
| CROSSES | Adversities that came doubly in the twenties (7) |
| ROARING | Army buddies Cagney, Bogart, and Lynn find their lives intertwining dramatically after WW1 ends in The ... Twenties |
| IWOJIMA | Island in the West Pacific that was the scene of prolonged fighting between Japan and the US in the Second World War (3,4) |
| OKARITO | West Coast township, only NZ breeding ground for the white heron (kotuku) (7) |
| ARIZONA | Sixth-largest state of the US, in the south-west on the border with Mexico (7) |
| IMAGISM | Poetic movement that flourished in England and the US in the early 20th century, pioneered by Ezra Pound and T. E. Hulme (7) |
| MODELTS | Electrical best-sellers of the Twenties |
| ALUMINIUM | In the twenties they built the first plane made entirely of this metal - even the Wright brothers used it in the engine block to reduce weight |
| GHOST | Silver Rolls succeeded by the Phantom in the Twenties (5) |
| EDERLE | Swimmer dubbed Queen of the Waves in the twenties |
| NURMI | Known in the Twenties as the Flying Finn, Paavo ... won nine Olympic gold medals |
| TOTHELIGHTHOUSE | Pieces of Eliot she thought novel in the twenties |
| SCORCHES | Burns church in the twenties (8) |
| WENT | Departed in the twenties |
