| SWARAJ | Independence in India, South Africa and Japan involving conflict (6) |
| INSANITY | Hiding that thing in India, South Africa and New York? That's madness (8) |
| SAMOSA | Fare from India south, landing in Pacific islands (6) |
| DECCAN | Name for the entire southern peninsula of India south of the Narmada River, marked centrally by a high triangular tableland. (6) |
| CISKEI | Bantu homeland in S.E. South Africa granted independence in 1981 (6) |
| BIAFRA | Region of Nigeria which declared independence in 1967, causing a civil war in which two million civilians died (6) |
| LUSAKA | Capital of Zambia, from its independence in 1964 (6) |
| KOSOVO | Former province of Serbia that declared independence in 2008, capital Pristina (6) |
| EERILY | Growing leery about independence, in a strange way (6) |
| KIGALI | Capital of Rwanda since independence in 1962 (6) |
| MALAWI | Landlocked African country that gained its independence in 1964 (6) |
| GREECE | European country which gained full independence in 1830 |
| MUNICH | Norwegian painter embraces independence in this city |
| EONISM | Cross-dressing indicating independence in men so arrayed |
| HUAMBO | Which Angolan city was called Nova Lisboa by the colonials, but since independence in 1975 has regai |
| BELGAE | The name of a country which declared independence in 1830 came from this ancient tribal confederation |
| STEIN | Chef and restaurateur noted for his culinary adventures around Padstow, Venice, Istanbul, Italy, Croatia, India, south-east Asia and recently Mexico (5) |
| HYDERABAD | City of central India, south-east of Mumbai (9) |
| ADVERSARIAL | Notice rivals are mad, involving conflict (11) |
| DEFRAYED | Bore the cost of action involving conflict (8) |
