| ROLLERSKATES | From 1863, the improved design of what led to many rinks being built in the US and western Europe? (6-6) |
| ATLANTICISM | The policy of close co-operation between North America and Western Europe |
| SASQUATCH | What large, hairy, human-like creature is believed by some to exist in the northwestern United States and western Canada? (9) |
| DUBAILAND | Mega-theme park being built in the United Arab Emirates |
| MONTBLANC | It's all over western Europe ? Scotsman with consumption goes to US city near North Carolina (4,5) |
| ANCHOR | Stockles, mushroom, grapnel, Danforth and plough are all designs of what device? (6) |
| HYUNDAI | South Korean motor company who announced in 2023 that a new plant will be built in the US to produce flying taxis (7) |
| LOCHINDAAL | One of the CalMac ferries being built in Turkey (4,6) |
| LIBERTY | _ ships: vessels built in the US during World War Il for use by Britain (7) |
| ETHNICAL | Exotic, in the improved state (8) |
| UPGRADE | Anxiously urged Pa to get the improved software perhaps (7) |
| GRAMMA | Pasture grass of plains of South America and western North America. |
| ANDIRA | Small genus of evergreen trees of tropical America and western Africa. |
| IRONCURTAIN | Physical and ideological barrier between the Soviet Bloc and Western Europe from the end of WWII until the 1991 end of the Cold War (4,7) |
| ARTDECO | Style of architecture and design that flourished in the US and Europe in the 1920s and 1930s (3,4) |
| BIGBANG | Cosmology... The what led to the creation of the Universe?: 2 wds. |
| THANKSGIVING | Yearly national holiday in the US and Canada to celebrate the harvest and other blessings of the past year |
| FOKKER | Anthony, the 'Flying Dutchman', who made fighter aircraft for Germany in the First World War and later established companies in the US and the Netherlands (6) |
| WANDERER | The ___, B-side of Dion's single The Majestic which became a Top 10 hit in the US and UK when DJs preferred it to the A-side |
| ENSIGN | What is the lowest rank of commissioned officer in the US and some other navies, above chief warrant officer and below lieutenant? (6) |
