| AKAN | It's a lake in Japan that shares a name with a group of languages in Africa. (Which is simply a coincidence.) |
| KILIMANJARO | Dormant volcano in Africa which is one of the Seven Summits of the world and which was first climbed in 1889 |
| BANTU | Group of languages in Africa |
| ZAYSAN | It's a lake in eastern Kazakhstan that's at an elevation of more than 1,200 feet (366 meters). |
| TOBA | It's a lake in the Barisan Mountains of Sumatra in Indonesia |
| KASAI | River in Africa which forms part of the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola (5) |
| KRUGERSDORP | City in Gauteng, South Africa which is a centre for gold, manganese, and uranium mining (11) |
| PCELTIC | Of languages in which sound 'kw' became 'p' (1-6) |
| EGYPT | Country in Northeast Africa which is around 90 per cent desert (5) |
| KHOISAN | Family of languages in southern Africa (7) |
| ZAMBEZI | Fourth-longest river in Africa, which flows into the Indian Ocean (7) |
| PACHINKO | Apple TV+ drama, about a Korean family in Japan, that won a Peabody Award in 2023 |
| KWA | A branch of a group of languages spoken in W Africa (3) |
| ATHABASCAN | A traveller's first hour with a book, taking a look at a group of languages |
| ROMANCE | A group of languages descended from Latin, including Catalan, Italian and Provencal; or, a medieval tale of adventure and heroism written in one of these vernaculars (7) |
| CONTRADICTIONINTERMS | "I maintain that the phrase, a 'long poem' is simply a flat ____" (Edgar Allan Poe) |
| ANIMATED | Style of language in which Mr Collins wished to inform Elizabeth Bennet of the violence of his affection? (8) |
| OSAKA | Port in Japan that was the chief commercial centre in feudal times (5) |
| MADAMEBUTTERFLY | Opera by Puccini set in Japan that premiered in 1904 (6,9) |
| ARYAN | Although this word was used to describe the specious Nazi 'master race' concept, in linguistics this simply refers to a group of languages from the Subcontinent |
