| CHOCTAW | Native people originally occupying what is now the southeastern United States |
| LIMPET | Monkey occupying what must be reserved for clinger (6) |
| ALABAMA | A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico. |
| FLORIDA | Large peninsula in the southeastern United States that also makes up the 27th U.S. state. (7) |
| DESOTO | Explorer of the southeastern United States |
| CHEROKEE | A member of a Native American people originally indigenous to the southeastern US (8) |
| FL | A state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. |
| EEC | Original initials (from the 1957 Treaty of Rome) for what is now the European Community - as in The Tree Council! (1,1,1) |
| ARNOTTSBISCUITS | Product originally manufactured in what is now the Bakehouse Quarter, S. Strathfield (7,8) |
| TUVALU | End product is superior and provides endless value for what is now the Ellice Islands (6) |
| MOAB | An ancient kingdom east of the Dead Sea, in what is now the SW part of Jordan |
| FINISTERRE | Peninsula in western Spain, former name of what is now the FitzRoy sea area in the UK Shipping Forecast (10) |
| OORT | Astronomer who proposed what is now the generally accepted model for the origin of comets (4) |
| BRONTOSAUR | Large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur of the genus Aptosaurus, which lived in what is now the US (10) |
| SANDWICH | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Islands, name given by James Cook to what is now the Hawaiian chain (8) |
| WAGONTRAINS | Early visitors to what is now the Las Vegas Strip |
| BOHEMIA | Former region located in what is now the Czech Republic (7) |
| MISSISSIPPI | State in the southeastern US, bounded in the west by a river of the same name (11) |
| GALAX | Plant native to the southeastern US also called wandflower (5) |
| JAUNT | Showman and dog-biscuit manufacturer who founded what is now the worlds largest dog show (5) |