| VANDIEMENS | Name by which the island of Tasmania was known until 1853 (3,7,4) |
| LAND | Name by which the island of Tasmania was known until 1853 (3,7,4) |
| DEVIL | Named in part for the island of Tasmania, this stocky, carnivorous marsupial is also named for its diabolical expression and attitude. |
| VANDIEMENSLAND | The former name of Tasmania (3,7,4) |
| UNUNBIUM | Placeholder name by which chemical element 112 was known until astronomer Copernicus's name was designated to it in 2010 (8) |
| CRADLEMOUNTAIN | Elevated part of Tasmania cultivated old American nut (6,8) |
| AEGEAN | What is the name of the sea in which the islands of Samos and Lesbos are located? (6) |
| ELLICE | ___ Islands, name by which Tuvalu was known until 1976 (6) |
| UPPERVOLTA | Name by which Burkina Faso was known until 1984 (5,5) |
| IDLEWILD | Name by which John F Kennedy International Airport was known until 1963 (8) |
| AEGEANSEA | Body of water in which the island of Rhodes is found (6,3) |
| ATLANTIC | Body of water in which the island of St Helena lies |
| LIBERTY | --- Island in New York Bay was known until 1956 as Bedloe's Island (7) |
| HAITI | Nation to which the island of Tortuga belongs |
| THUMB | Vessel in which Bass and Flinders established that Tasmania was indeed an island, Tom ... |
| SAIGON | Name by which Ho Chi Minh City was officially known until 1976 (6) |
| CEYLON | Name by which Sri Lanka was formally known until 1972 (6) |
| ULANBATOR | Anglicised name of the capital city of Mongolia, known until 1924 as Urga (4,5) |
| NUUK | Capital city of Greenland, known until 1979 by the Danish name Godthab (4) |
| ORANGEBELLIEDPARROTS | What is the common name of the endangered birds of Tasmania and coastal Victoria, Neophema chrysogas |
