| IANSMITH | Rhodesian premier when the country declared itself independent in 1965 (3,5) |
| ESTONIA | This Baltic nation declared itself an independent republic in 1918 - by the end of WWII it had been |
| DONDUNSTAN | Who was premier when. in 1975, Peter Duncan's private members bill passed making South Australia the first jurisdiction in Australia to decriminalise male homosexuality? (3,7) |
| ANGOLA | African country declared a Marxist-Leninist one-party Republic in 1975 (6) |
| CITYCOUNCIL | Birmingham ____ declared itself effectively bankrupt in 2023 |
| HUNGARY | *European country declared to be no longer free |
| ATEMPO | Resuming at previous pace, old premier when expected to retire (1,5) |
| ITALY | Country declared united on 17 March 1861 (5) |
| CAPITALOFZAIRE | Z (By the way, I made this puzzle in mid-May 1997 when the country was still called this, and by the time the puzzle came out in newspapers just two weeks later, the country's name had been changed. |
| OWNKAYAK | What to paddle if you're independent in Greenland? (3,5) |
| ADROITLY | Lady upset about corruption bringing Independent in smartly |
| SEWED | "When the country was fallin' apart, Betsy Ross got it all - up" ("Maude" theme lyric) |
| POLLINGDAY | When the country is at cross-purposes (7,3) |
| INDI | In which electoral division in 2019 did Helen Haines become the first independent in Australian history to succeed another independent in a federal seat? (4) |
| RIDGEBACK | Also known as the African Lion Hound, the Rhodesian ... |
| BLOOD | Leonardo Dicaprio played Rhodesian gunrunner Danny Archer in the political war thriller _ Diamond (5) |
| LONRHO | Company founded in 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company (6) |
| UDI | Rhodesian 1965 statement in rudimentary form (1,1,1) |
| HELENFIELDING | Author whose best-known character first appeared in an anonymous column in The Independent in 1995 |
| HOIPOLLOI | The masses vote to follow Independent in Ohio when desperate (3,6) |
