| STALINOGROD | Name by which the Polish city of Katowice was officially known from 1953 to 1956 (11) |
| RHODESIA | Name by which Zimbabwe was officially known from 1964 to 1979 (8) |
| ODER | Central European river on which the Polish city of Wroclaw lies (4) |
| KATOWICE | City of Upper Silesia, known from 1953 to 1956 as Stalinogrod (8) |
| TWICEAWEEK | Sometimes eight times a month, temperature in half of Katowice Academy is reportedly poor (5,1,4) |
| VISTULA | River on which the Polish capital Warsaw stands (7) |
| CHEMNITZ | City in Saxony, Germany, known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt (8) |
| BURMA | Name by which the Union of Myanmar was officially known before 1989 (5) |
| SAIGON | Name by which Ho Chi Minh City was officially known until 1976 (6) |
| VOLTA | Name by which Burkina Faso was officially known prior to 1984 (5) |
| UPPER | Name by which Burkina Faso was officially known prior to 1984 (5) |
| MAIDANEK | KL built on the outskirts of the Polish city of Lublin (8) |
| CEYLON | Name by which Sri Lanka was officially known until I972 (6) |
| DANZIG | Former name of the Polish city of Gdansk |
| DAHOMEY | Name by which Benin was officially known before 1975 (7) |
| GENEVA | The United Nations, with its headquarters in this Swiss city, is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Dag Hammarskjold, its Secretary-General from 1953 to his death in 1961 |
| ODRA | River that flows through the Polish city of Wroclaw (4) |
| DAGHAMMARSKJOLD | Swede who was secretary-general of the UN from 1953 to 1961 (3,12) |
| BLISS | Sir Arthur ___, composer who was Master of the Queen's Musick from 1953 to 1975 |
| HAMMARSKJOLD | Dag --, Swedish Secretary-General of the UN from 1953 to 1961 (12) |
