| BLACKBEARD | Name by which pirate Edward Teach was known (10) |
| TEAPARTIES | Genteel affairs in which pirates ate bats (3,7) |
| REVENGE | Queen Anne's ___, ship used by Captain Edward Teach, or Blackbeard (7) |
| BASUTOLAND | Name by which Lesotho was known prior to gaining independence from the United Kingdom on 4 October 1966 (10) |
| UPPERVOLTA | Name by which Burkina Faso was known until 1984 (5,5) |
| VANDIEMENS | Name by which the island of Tasmania was known until 1853 (3,6'1) |
| PIRATE | Edward Teach, e.g. |
| AKA | Edward Teach ___ "Blackbeard" |
| CAMELOPARD | Name by which the giraffe was once known (10) |
| STALINGRAD | Name by which the Russian city of Volgograd was known from 1925-61 (10) |
| OUANANICHE | Name by which the Atlantic salmon is also known (10) |
| CARAVAGGIO | Born Michelangelo Merisi, name by which the artist who painted The Cardsharps, The Fortune Teller, The Lute Player and Basket of Fruit is known (10) |
| WHISPERING | Name by which the walkway round the base of the dome of St Paul's Cathedral is known (10,7) |
| ELCAUDILLO | Name by which Spanish general and head of state Francisco Franco was sometimes known |
| LAGIOCONDA | Name by which the Mona Lisa painting is also known (2,8) |
| PAPERBIRCH | Name by which Saskatchewan's provincial tree is also known: 2 wds. |
| IVORYCOAST | Name by which the African republic Cote d'Ivoire is also known (5,5) |
| LITTLENELL | Name by which the heroine of Charles Dickens's novel The Old Curiosity Shop is known |
| SWANOFAVON | Name by which Ben Jonson referred to William Shakespeare (4,2,4) |
| UNUNBIUM | Placeholder name by which chemical element 112 was known until astronomer Copernicus's name was designated to it in 2010 (8) |
