| UGALI | Popular maize porridge of East and Central Africa similar to the Italian polenta and American grits (5) |
| OMELETTE | Egg dish similar to the Italian frittata or the Spanish tortilla (8) |
| CORNMEAL | Main ingredient in polenta and grits |
| SWAHILI | Widely used language of east and central Africa (7) |
| EASTERN | ___ snake-eater, venomous snake of east and central Africa (7) |
| CARACAL | Also known as the desert lynx, or Persian lynx, this short-tailed cat is found in the hills, deserts, and plains of Africa, the Middle East, and central and southwestern Asia. |
| TWAIN | 'Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the ___ shall meet' (Rudyard Kipling 'The Ballad of East and West' (1889) |
| YURT | Circular tent traditionally used by nomads of East and Central Asia (4) |
| YURTS | Circular tents traditionally used by nomads of East and Central Asia (5) |
| BIBLEBELT | Region in the South East and central part of the USA characterised by socially conservative Christia |
| BUSHPIG | Potamochoerus porcus, native to forests of western and central Africa; also known as the red river hog (7) |
| AGHA | Honorific title used in parts of the Middle-East and Central Asia (4) |
| COLOBUS | Leaf-eating arboreal monkey of W and Central Africa covered by white and black coat |
| GULFOFGUINEA | Geography (iii): Area of the Atlantic Ocean between West and Central Africa (4,2,6) |
| HELMUTKOHL | Chancellor who oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany (6,4) |
| SHTETL | Name for a Jewish village or settlement in east and central Europe before the Holocaust (6) |
| NEVERTHETWAIN | ITV sitcom whose title came from Kipling’s The Ballad of East and West |
| POLENTA | Italian porridge of maize, barley etc (7) |
| POSHO | Word used informally in Britain to refer to an aristo, toff, upper-class individual etc; or, in Swahili, cornmeal, daily rations, maize porridge or ugali (5) |
| ELAND | Large, spiral-horned antelope of East and South Africa (5) |
