| JULIANA | Queen of the Netherlands 1948-1980 (7) |
| BEATRIX | The queen of the Netherlands until her abdication in 2013 (7) |
| PRINCESSBEATRIX | She became queen of the Netherlands in 1980 (8,7) |
| WILHELMINA | Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1948; the longest-reigning Dutch monarch (10) |
| CADENCE | Beat the bounder upsetting the EEC meeting around the capital of the Netherlands (7) |
| BONAIRE | Self-governing island territory of the Netherlands 50 miles (80 km) off the coast of Venezuela; chief town, Kralendijk (7) |
| UTRECHT | Central region of the Netherlands bordered to the south by the Rhine (7) |
| GUILDER | The old basic monetary unit of the Netherlands (7) |
| DRENTHE | Province in the north-east of the Netherlands (7) |
| CURACAO | Constituent country of the Netherlands that forms the ABC islands with Aruba and Bonaire (7) |
| BELGIUM | Neighbour of the Netherlands (7) |
| ZEELAND | Last character to sustain brio in part of the Netherlands (7) |
| BATAVIA | Ancient district of the Netherlands (7) |
| HOLLAND | Region of the Netherlands (7) |
| VANGAAL | Head coach of the Netherlands football team. (3,4) |
| SABA | The 'Unspoiled Queen' of the Caribbean, forming an island territory of the Netherlands (4) |
| LUBBERS | Ruud ___, prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982-94 (7) |
| ARUBA | One of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Curacao, the Netherlands and St Martin (5) |
| HAGUE | The _, seat of government of the Netherlands; location of the International Court of Justice (5) |
| ROTTERDAM | Largely destroyed in the Second World War, which of the Netherlands' cities was chartered in the 14th century and is now one of the largest ports in the world? (9) |
