| DEVILSISLAND | French penal colony off the coast of French Guiana from 1895 to 1938 (6,6) |
| ISLAND | Former penal colony off the coast of French Guiana (6,6) |
| DEVILS | Former penal colony off the coast of French Guiana (6,6) |
| BASSROCK | Island home to a large gannet colony off the coast of North Berwick (4,4) |
| ILEDUDIABLE | Which of the Safety Islands off the coast of French Guiana was a former French penal colony and is k |
| ROBBENISLAND | Penal settlement and former leper colony off the Cape Peninsula, South Africa (6,6) |
| NORFOLKISLAND | Former British penal colony off the east coast of Australia (7,6) |
| SLOCUM | Joshua ___, first person to sail singlehandedly around the world, from 1895 to 1898 (6) |
| ILEDU | ___ Diable (penal colony off French Guiana) |
| TAIWAN | Disputed island of east Asia, ruled by Japan from 1895 to 1945 (6) |
| PAULGAUGUIN | French post-impressionist painter who lived in self-imposed exile in Tahiti from 1895 to 1901 (4,7) |
| READING | Berkshire town in whose gaol Oscar Wilde was imprisoned from 1895 to 1897 (7) |
| CAYENNE | Very hot pepper that's also the name of the capital of French Guiana |
| ATATURK | Kemal ___ (1881 - 1938) the founder of modern Turkey who was president from 1923 to 1938 (7) |
| LUGER | What was the standard pistol of the German armed forces from 1908 to 1938? (5) |
| SCHILLING | Currency unit of Austria from 1924 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1999 |
| CAPEVERDE | Which former Portuguese colony off the westernmost point of Africa became independent in 1975? (4,5) |
| PAPILLON | Novel by Henri Charriere about his imprisonment in a French penal colony (8) |
| BERMUDA | British colony off the Carolina coast (7) |
| REED | Thomas Brackett ___, Speaker of the US House of Representatives from 1895-99 (4) |
