| THESNAILANDTHEWHALE | One of 13's stories, when she grapples with Thailand in fable |
| THESNAIL | One of 13's stories, when she grapples with Thailand in fable (3,5,3,3,5) |
| STINK | Controversy with Thailand in decline (5) |
| ROOMONTHEBROOM | A few weeks to live in retreat among native Australians and Maoris, primarily, in one of 13's stories (4,2,3,5) |
| TIDDLER | Cat retracting tail a little in one of 13's stories (7) |
| THEGRUFFALO | One of 13's stories, where claw almost seizes male husky (3,8) |
| STICKMAN | Lowry's subject for one of 13's stories (5,3) |
| AMISS | A small one of 13's faulty (5) |
| TSUNAMIS | Large destructive sea waves such as those which devastated some of coastal Japan in 1993 and parts of Indonesia and Thailand in 2004 |
| PHUKET | Largest island of Thailand, in the Andaman Sea at the head of the Strait of Malacca (6) |
| TREATED | Dealt with Thailand rot with Communists outside (7) |
| ATOZ | One with Thailand and Australia gazetteer (1,2,1) |
| ALARAIBI | Bahraini-Australian soccer player arrested in Thailand in 2019, Hakeem ... (2-6) |
| WRESTLER | One grapples with the remnants of the French Resistance (8) |
| RUMOURS | Hearsay stories when spirit belongs to us (7) |
| VIENTIANE | Capital and largest city of Laos, on the Mekong River near the border with Thailand (9) |
| HARE | One finishing second to a tortoise, in fable |
| LAOS | Country having a border dispute with Thailand |
| DRAWBACK | Snag with Thailand ending revolutionary conflict has Obama losing heart (8) |
| TUTORS | Organised tours crossing Thailand in coaches (6) |
