| JAVAMAN | Fossil hominid of the Middle Pleistocene period discovered in Indonesia in 1891-2; classified since 1950 as Homo Erectus (4,3) |
| JAMESNAISMITH | Physical education teacher who invented a popular indoor sport in 1891: 2 wds. |
| PILTDOWNMAN | Hoax purporting to be fossil hominid (8,3) |
| ICEAGE | Period of glaciation in the earlier part of the Pleistocene period (3,3) |
| EPOCH | Pleistocene period |
| KRAKATOA | A volcanic island in Indonesia, in the Sunda Strait, partially destroyed by its eruption in 1883 (8) |
| SUMATRA | Mountainous island in W Indonesia, in the Greater Sunda Islands, separated from the Malay Peninsula by the Strait of Malacca |
| OCEANIA | Canoe wrecked by the shores of Indonesia, in the South Pacific (7) |
| DUTCH | The former colony of the ___East Indies became Indonesia in 1949 (5) |
| TESS | ___ of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy novel first serialised in the illustrated newspaper The Graphic in 1891 (4) |
| TSUNAMI | Large destructive ocean wave that devastated areas from the east coast of Africa to Indonesia in 200 |
| IRIANJAYA | Former name for the western part of New Guinea, annexed by Indonesia in 1962 |
| TI | The east of this island gained its independence from Indonesia in 2002 (5) |
| DUTCHEASTINDIES | Former name of Indonesia in the 19th and 20th centuries (5.4.6) |
| MAN | Fossilised remains of a hominid discovered in East Sussex in 1912 shown to be a hoax in 1953 (8,3) |
| PILTDOWN | Fossilised remains of a hominid discovered in East Sussex in 1912 shown to be a hoax in 1953 (8,3) |
| CALTECH | Byname for the science and engineering institute in the U.S. city of Pasadena established in 1891 (7) |
| JAKARTA | Capital city of Indonesia, in NW Java; formerly (until 1949) called Batavia (7) |
| SUHARTO | Which general began his long reign of Indonesia in 1967? (7) |
| BALI | Which island off Java became part of Indonesia in 1945? (4) |
