| RISINGSUN | Land of the ____ , name given to Japan (6,3) |
| AXIS | The ___, name given to the alliance of Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan formalised by the 1940 Tripartite Pact (4) |
| AFARS | French Territory of the ___, name of present-day Djibouti from 1967-77 (5,3,5) |
| WATERHOLE | The __, name of the pub in Erinsborough (9) |
| OMBUDSMAN | The ___, name by which the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration is also known (9) |
| HACKNSUCK | The ___ (name for a butcher shop?) |
| PEEKNEASE | The ___ (name for a binoculars store?) |
| RACKNTOUR | The ___ (name for a Spanish Inquisition museum?) |
| HACKNSACK | The ___ (name for a butcher shop?) |
| BOOMER | Baby ___, name given to the generation of people born in the years following the Second World War (6) |
| FRIGATOON | Thanks to Japan surrendering lead for fine working ship in Venice |
| WISEMEN | Three _ _, name given to the Biblical magi who did homage to the infant Jesus (4,3) |
| CAPET | Widow ___"; name given to Marie Antoinette following the execution of her husband Louis XVI in 1793 (5) |
| ROSE | Briar __, name given to Princess Aurora when she goes into hiding (4) |
| ELI | Our ___, name given to Class 31 No. 31455 in 1993 (3) |
| NEEDLES | Cleopatra's ___: name given to three Ancient Egyptian obelisks now located in New York, London and Paris. (7) |
| RISING | Japan, the Land of the __ Sun |
| FREE | "O'er the land of the ___ ..." |
| CALLUM | Gaelic name ___ name given with hesitation (6) |
| LEVANT | The ___, name by which the area of the Mediterranean now occupied by Syria, Lebanon and Israel was f |
