| IONIA | Region on the west coast of Asia Minor, so-called from having been colonised by a branch of the Hellenic race (5) |
| WYOMINGRANGE | Part of the Rocky Mountains traversed by a branch of the Oregon Trail known as the Lander Road |
| THAILAND | The only country in south or southeast Asia never colonised by a European power |
| ASTORIA | Queens neighborhood on one end of the Hell Gate Bridge |
| BIKER | Break the ice dismissing Hecate - presumably she's a member of the Hells Angels? (5) |
| OUTONALIMB | Sleeping supported by a branch in a precarious position (3,2,1,4) |
| SETTLED | Paid to be colonised? (7) |
| LYDIA | Ancient region on the west coast of Asia Minor that was a powerful kingdom in the century and a half before the Persian conquest in 546 BC |
| EPHESUS | Ancient major trading city on the West Coast of Asia Minor, famous for the nearby Temple of Artemis (7) |
| ISPY | Name for a variant of hideand- seek originally, so called from the cry when one was found; or, a later guessing game that inspired a series of spotter guidebooks (1-3) |
| SMYRNA | Greek city on the west coast of Asia Minor |
| PLAQUE | Sticky biofilm on teeth composed of saliva and leftover food particles, colonised by up to a thousand species of bacteria (6) |
| NEWENGLAND | Region of the northeast US, colonised by Europeans in the 17th century (3,7) |
| COBALT | "Demon, fairy or imp of the mine", atomic no. 27, so called from miners' belief that malicious goblins put said "mischievous" metal in the silver ore (6) |
| TARANAKI | North Island region on the west coast (8) |
| GOA | What is the smallest of India's states and was colonised by the Portuguese? (3) |
| COLOMBIA | A republic in North West South America colonised by Spain in the 16th Century (8) |
| TRANSVAAL | Province of South Africa from 1910 to 1991.~ colonised by the Boers (9) |
| FIFTEENS | Daily crosswords, to puzzle pros (so-called from the number of squares per side) |
| GOLDENEAGLE | Which large bird of prey is so called from its yellow-tipped head feathers? (6,5) |
