| SWITZERLAND | Nation which gave the world chocolate, cuckoo clocks and gnomes |
| LAWNORNAMENTS | Pink flamingos and gnomes, e.g. |
| BREATHE | 'The Air That I ___': 1974 song which gave The Hollies a worldwide hit (7) |
| HEADLAMPS | Illuminating types which gave the Sprite its Frogeye nickname (9) |
| TRAGEDY | 1979 song which gave The Bee Gees a No 1 hit (7) |
| SUMMERTIME | The year's golden season, warmest quarter, period of advanced clocks and months most dry, when the "living is easy, the fish are jumping and the cotton is high" (10) |
| SWEDEN | Country that gave the world the SAAB and Volvo motor cars |
| SWISS | From the country of cheese, banks and cuckoo clocks (5) |
| DISNEY | Which major film studio gave the world Mickey Mouse? (6) |
| PIERRECARDIN | French designer who gave the world the bubble dress |
| MAURITIUS | Indian Ocean island nation which was the only known habitat of the flightless bird, the dodo (9) |
| VIETNAM | South East Asian nation which forced the withdrawal of US forces supporting its southern regime in the independence war of the sixties |
| ARGENTINA | Nation which won the 2022 FIFA World Cup (9) |
| SUSSEX | English county that gave the world Leo Sayer |
| OTIS | He gave the world a lift |
| RICKYNELSON | Musician who gave the world musical twins |
| DELRIO | Spanish Latin duo who gave the world Macarena, Los _ _ (3,3) |
| EASTGERMANY | Warsaw Pact nation which controlled the city on one side of the Berlin Wall (4,7) |
| USA | Nation which was the first to put a man on the moon (1,1,1) |
| SCOTLAND | Non-test playing nation which qualified for the 2007 T20 Cricket World Cup along with Kenya |
