| REDENSIGN | Official flag of the British Merchant Navy |
| STARSANDBARS | Informally, the first official flag of the Confederate States of America |
| COUNTY | Any one of the UK's regional divisions once called shires, often with an official flag or flower (6) |
| REDDUSTER | British merchant navy flag (3,6) |
| OLDGLORY | Nickname of the flag of the United States of America |
| CUTTY | - Sark; preserved in Greenwich as a memorial to the Merchant Navy and monument to the age of sail, the last surviving tea clipper, once the fastest ship of her time (5) |
| PARADISE | Appearing on the flag of the South Pacific nation, Papua New Guinea, is the bird of ... |
| STRIPE | One of thirteen on the flag of the U.S. (6) |
| STARSANDSTRIPES | The name used for the national flag of the USA (5,3,7) |
| OLD | Nickname for the flag of the United States of America (3.5) |
| GLORY | Nickname for the flag of the United States of America (3.5) |
| SALTIRE | Heraldic symbol in the form of a diagonal cross, as on most flags of the Confederate States of America (7) |
| SICKLE | It joined a hammer on the flag of the Soviet Union |
| IRIS | Is it the flag of the Irish Republic? (4) |
| UNIONJACK | The national flag of the United Kingdom (5,4) |
| SUN | Symbol on the flag of the Philippines |
| WHITEENSIGN | Flag of the Royal Navy (5,6) |
| CUNARD | Samuel, British merchant born in 1787 who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship line (6) |
| DUSTER | Red ____, informal term for a flag flown by British merchant ships (6) |
| REDESIGN | Draw up a new version, missing out the middle of the Merchant Navy flag (8) |
