| NKOMO | Joshua ?, founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union who died in 1999 (5) |
| SITHOLE | Ndabaningi ?, founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union who died in 2000 (7) |
| SUGAR | Alan ?, founder of the company Amstrad; star of BBC TV show The Apprentice (5) |
| ERNIE | Comedy partner of Eric Morecambe who died in 1999 (5,4) |
| TORME | Mel, big band singer and composer who died in 1999 (5) |
| SLADE | Felix ?, founder of a school of fine art in London in 1871 (5) |
| PYGMY | Member of certain African peoples of very short stature (5) |
| SEARS | Richard Warren ?, founder with Alvah Curtis Roebuck of a US department store chain (5) |
| BANTU | Group of African peoples (5) |
| SWAPO | South West African People's Organisation, founded 1960 (5) |
| MASAI | African people's militia's amnesty in part overturned |
| SHONA | African people's silence over North America |
| WISE | Comedy partner of Eric Morecambe who died in 1999 (5,4) |
| MELTORME | Big band singer and composer nicknamed The Velvet Fog who died in 1999 (3,5) |
| SWAZI | Anglicised name of the southern African people who, under Sobhuza I and his son Mswati II, established a nation now known as Eswatini in the early 19th century (5) |
| CADILLAC | Antoine de la Mothe ?, founder of the settlement that became the US city of Detroit, Michigan (8) |
| HULL | Rod ___, entertainer who died in 1999, associated with the puppet Emu (4) |
| RODHULL | Entertainer associated with the puppet Emu who died in 1999 |
| BILL | Voice of rugby union who died in 2010 (4,7) |
| MCLAREN | Voice of rugby union who died in 2010 (4,7) |
