| THRACE | Historical and geographic area in southeast Europe comprising parts of Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey |
| NUBIAN | Inhabitant of a region now comprising parts of northern Sudan and southern Egypt |
| ESTATE | Order or class comprising part of the body politic, i.e the Lords Spiritual, Lords Temporal or Commons (6) |
| CLIMATECHANGE | The periodic modification of Earth's climate resulting from changes in the atmosphere as well as interactions between the atmosphere and various other geologic, chemical, biological, and geographic fa |
| GAUL | Ancient region of Europe, comprising present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg and parts of Germany and Italy (4) |
| STEPPE | Dry area of grassland in southeast Europe and Siberia (6) |
| RURITANIA | A fictional land of historical romance in southeast Europe (9) |
| BAEDEKERRAID | One of a set of 1942 Luftwaffe attacks targeting British cities and towns of historical and cultural value (8,4) |
| BOSNIA | ___ and Herzegovina, country on the Balkan Peninsula in southeast Europe (6) |
| SIBERIA | Reaching lows of around -88degreesC, geographic area covering some 77 per cent of Russia's land area (7) |
| TORFAEN | Principal area in southeast Wales whose towns include Pontypool and Cwmbran |
| DANUBE | A river in central and southeast Europe, rising in the Black Forest in Germany and flowing to the Black Sea (6) |
| SCANDINAVIA | Region of Northern Europe comprising Denmark, Norway and Sweden (11) |
| ROMNEY | Artist who painted some 60 portraits of Lady Hamilton (Emma Hart) in various historical and mythological roles (6) |
| SAMARIA | Historical and biblical name for the central region of the ancient Land of Israel (7) |
| SERBIA | Turns out bank here is about to send head to country in southeast Europe |
| ECOSYSTEM | Geographic area where organisms, weather and landscape work together to form a bubble of life (9) |
| IBERIA | The peninsular in Europe comprising Spain and Portugal (6) |
| PRUSSIA | Old part of Europe, comprising Portugal and another country |
| GREASE | Oil found somewhere in southeast Europe, say (6) |
