| CHAD | Largest of the 16 landlocked countries of Africa; capital, N'Djamena (4) |
| EUROPA | Name the fourth largest of the 16 satellites of Jupiter (6) |
| ASHANTI | Third-largest of the 16 administrative regions of Ghana; capital, Kumasi (7) |
| LAOS | One of the three landlocked countries with four-letter names, aside from Chad and Mali |
| PAWN | One of the 16 weakest chess pieces (4) |
| CYAN | Fancy a new fence in one of the 16 1 5 (4) |
| MARS | Site of the 16-mile-high Olympus Mons |
| SEED | One of the sixteen top players at Wimbledon, for example? |
| ASIA | Home to 12 landlocked countries |
| FORTLAMY | Former name of N'Djamena, capital of Chad (4-4) |
| AFRICAN | A native, inhabitant or citizen of any of the countries of Africa (7) |
| UZBEKISTAN | One of the only two doubly-landlocked countries in the world, capital Tashkent (10) |
| MANIAS | The Dutch tulip craze of the sixteen-thirties and the Beatles craze of the nineteen-sixties |
| BOLIVIA | Larger of the only two landlocked countries in the Americas |
| EADRED | One of the 16 children of Edward the Elder who ruled as king of England from 946 until his death in 955 (6) |
| ERITRIA | Country in the Horn of Africa, capital Asmara (7) |
| LEONE | Republic on the west coast of Africa, capital Freetown (6,5) |
| SIERRA | Republic on the west coast of Africa, capital Freetown (6,5) |
| THIRDWORLD | The less economically advanced countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America (5,5) |
| LIECHTENSTEIN | One of the world's two doubly-landlocked countries |
