| PHILIPPINES | Island country in the western Pacific that was proclaimed independent on July 4, 1946, with Manuel Roxas as its first president |
| STAIRCASE | Psychological thriller from 1946 with George Brent, The Spiral --------- (9) |
| CATERWAUL | Cry for Tom to serve food with Manuel intermittently missing |
| PERON | The new president of Argentina on June 4, 1946, was General Juan ..., husband of the later famous Ev |
| IWOJIMA | Island in the West Pacific that was the scene of prolonged fighting between Japan and the US in the Second World War (3,4) |
| ALGERIA | African nation in which the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples was proclaimed on July 4, 1976 |
| OKINAWA | Largest of the Ryukyu Islands in the North Pacific that was a scene of heavy fighting in World War II |
| NIUE | The "Rock of Polynesia" in the South Pacific that is one of the largest coral atolls in the world (4) |
| VANUATU | Country in the western Pacific, formerly the Condominium of the New Hebrides |
| GUADALCANAL | Province and island of the Solomon Islands in the S.W. Pacific that contains the country's capital H |
| FIJI | Island country in the South Pacific that surrounds the coral-rich Koro Sea (4) |
| LOUGEHRIG | He proclaimed himself to fans "the luckiest man on the face of the Earth" on July 4, 1939 |
| NEWGUINEA | Island in the SW Pacific that houses the Indonesian province of West Irian Jaya (3,6) |
| ELNINO | Occasional warming of the eastern tropical Pacific that disrupts the weather pattern of the region (2,4) |
| EDGAR | 'The A†theling,' last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England who was proclaimed King of England in 1066 |
| BORNEO | Third-largest island in the world, in the western Pacific southeast of the Malay Peninsula (6) |
| ROTA | Southernmost of the Northern Marianas in the western Pacific, known as the 'Friendly Island' (4) |
| GUAM | Largest and southernmost island of the Marianas in the western Pacific, administered by the US since 1950 (4) |
| GLENBAXTER | English cartoonist noted for his absurdist drawings which have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Independent on Sunday |
| SEAWATER | A rise in the surface temperature of this, in the western Pacific, heralds the arrival of a new El Nino with drought for Australia and floods for Peru |
