| BADEN | It was once known as aquae panoninae |
| BATH | City once known as Aquae Sulis (4) |
| ZAMBIA | It was once known as Northern Rhodesia (6) |
| STPETERSBURG | It was once known as Petrograd (2,10) |
| CAMBODIA | It was once known as Kampuchea |
| TUVALU | Its name means "Cluster of Eight," and it was once known as the Ellice Islands. |
| NEWGUINEA | Large island of the eastern Malay Archipelago, in the western Pacific Ocean, north of Australia. It was once known as Irian Jaya. |
| HOOSIERDOME | Indianapolis Colts' home, as it was once known |
| DADECOUNTY | Miami's locale, as it was once known |
| LOVEAPPLE | Tomato, as it was once known |
| DORCHESTER | Montreal's Boulevard Rene-Levesque, as it was once known |
| HARELIP | Cleft facial feature, as it was once known |
| USAIR | American competitor, as it was once known |
| XERES | Spanish sherry city Jerez as it was once known |
| OSTRICH | Large bird that, as its genus name Struthio camelus suggests, was once known as the camel bird (7) |
| MAINTENON | Which part of Paris was the home of the second wife of Louis XIV who was once known as Madame Scarron? (9) |
| AYERS | The Australian monolith called Uluru was once known as ... Rock |
| IRAN | Country that was once known as Persia |
| LOVE | Tomato was once known as ___ apple! (4) |
| HOMS | Syrian city that was once known as Emesa (4) |
