| BADENPOWELL | Founder in call about former colony captive |
| LILAC | I put in call about flower (5) |
| PHILIPPINES | Spanish king has to suffer in former colony |
| EXPLANATION | Clearing up former colony, removing tension (11) |
| MACAO | Chairman welcomes accountant in former colony (5) |
| GUINEA | Former colony of France in West Africa, on the Atlantic (6) |
| DUTCH | The former colony of the ___East Indies became Indonesia in 1949 (5) |
| BONHAM | A founder in 1793 of the auction house with a flagship saleroom in Mayfair; or, a former Led Zeppelin drummer (6) |
| STOPES | Marie ?, founder in 1921 of a birth-control clinic in North London (6) |
| TIMOR | East ---, a former colony of Portugal, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands (5) |
| CAROLINA | Waits for such a song once in a former colony |
| NIGERIA | Queen almost upset one area in former colony |
| NYASALAND | Lady Ann's a stranger in a former colony |
| GENOA | Sail east then north into former colony (5) |
| GOA | State in W. India, a former colony of Portugal (3) |
| NATIONAL | Citizen in former colony takes charge (8) |
| GORILLA | Brutal fellow, cur ultimately hostile in former colony |
| MACAU | Obama cautious holding former colony (5) |
| NATAL | Former colony, Australian, cheers being claimed by the Netherlands (5) |
| GUINNESS | Founder in 1759 of a brewery specialising in Irish dry stout; or, an actor who starred in The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia (8) |
