| ABURNTOUTCASE | Graham Greene novel set in the Belgian Congo (1,5-3,4) |
| CASEMENT | Sir Roger, the British diplomat who exposed atrocities in the Belgian Congo and elsewhere (8) |
| QUIETAMERICAN | Graham Greene novel set in Saigon, with "The" |
| HAVANA | "Our Man in __": Graham Greene novel set in Cuba |
| COMEDIANS | 'The ---', Graham Greene novel set in Haiti (9) |
| AMERICAN | The Quiet _, 1955 Graham Greene novel set in Vietnam (8) |
| OURMANINHAVANA | Graham Greene novel set in Cuba |
| THECOMEDIANS | Graham Greene novel set in Haiti (3,9) |
| CALLOFTHEWILD | The ___, Jack London novel set in the Yukon (4,2,3,4) |
| GRAPESOFWRATH | John Steinbeck novel set in the Great Depression, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (6,2,5) |
| BRAVENEWWORLD | * Dystopian novel set in the year 2540 |
| THEYOUNGLIONS | 1948 Irwin Shaw novel set in the second World War (3,5,5) |
| BOMA | Port in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; capital of the Belgian Congo until 1926 (4) |
| PATRICKOBRIAN | Author of a series of great sea novels set in the Napoleonic era |
| VIRUNGA | ___ (formerly Albert) National Park, established in 1925 in what was then the Belgian Congo (7) |
| ZAIRE | Country formerly the Belgian Congo (5) |
| EUPEN | City in the Belgian province of Liege that is the capital of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion |
| EEL | Meat in the Belgian dish Paling in 't groen |
| VERVIERS | City in the Belgian province of Liege known as Wallonia's "Water Capital" (8) |
| ANTWERP | There's war pent up in the Belgian port (7) |
