| OPTIMA | Kia model now known as the K5 |
| ZAIRE | Former name of the African state now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5) |
| MERCIA | Anglo-Saxon kingdom covering the region now known as the Midlands (6) |
| SCAMANDER | River of the land of Troy, now known as the Menderes (9) |
| ARAL | Lake now known as the Aralkum Desert |
| HELLESPONT | Narrow strait now known as the Dardanelles |
| KIROV | Russian ballet company now known as the Mariinsky |
| SHARI | Ubangi-___, former territory now known as the Central African Republic (5) |
| SPICEISLANDS | Indonesian archipelago now known as the Moluccas |
| MACAU | This part of China, once a Portuguese territory, is now known as the ... Special Administrative Region |
| SCOTT | Naval officer and Antarctic explorer whose son Peter founded what is now known as the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire (5) |
| TRINITY | Holy ___ Church, a redundant church in Watergate, Chester; now known as The Guildhall (7) |
| FLANDERS | Medieval country now known as the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium (8) |
| RAC | .. Rally. name of an annual motoring event from 1932 to 1997 now known as the Wales Rally GB (1,1,1) |
| PITT | Card-___ team created by a temporary merger and now known as the Arizona Cardinals |
| JORDAN | Katie Price's working name when she was a model - now she's better known as an author and as the wif |
| KATE | The world's most famous model - now with her own agency |
| BURMA | Nation on the Bay of Bengal (now known as the Union of Myanmar) |
| YANGTSE | Major river of China, now known as the Chang |
| TAWNY | Model now finished in any colour |
