| HAILE | Selassie in Ethiopian history |
| MENGISTU | Ethiopian leader who overthrew Haile Selassie in 1974 (8) |
| SELASSIE | Name from Ethiopian history |
| ANT | Worker in Ethiopian town (3) |
| EASTERN | Asian flower seen in Ethiopian border (7) |
| AWASH | Dustmen with no undergarments found in Ethiopian river (5) |
| ADDISABABA | A Doctor of Divinity is meeting a couple of graduates in Ethiopian capital (5, 5) |
| INEDIBLE | You can't eat this in Ethiopian capital - return the offer to the French |
| RASTAFARIAN | Jamaican follower of the religious movement in which the emperor Haile Selassie was held to be an in |
| RASTA | Member of the religious movement in which the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is viewed as an incar |
| RASTAFARI | Religious movement started in Jamaica in the 1930s, so called after the former name of Haile Selassie I (9) |
| EMPEROR | Official title of former Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie |
| RAS | Title for Ethiopian royals, such as Selassie |
| ADDIS | The emperor Haile Selassie returned to his Abyssinian capital, ... Ababa, in May 5, 1941, exactly fi |
| ITALY | Which country's invasion of Ethiopia in 1935 forced Haile Selassie to flee? (5) |
| EMP | Haile Selassie, e.g.: Abbr. |
| ETHIOPIA | African nation formerly ruled by Emperor Haile Selassie |
| ABYSSINIAN | Haile Selassie, perhaps, to gorge with Thorpe (10) |
| ETHIOPIAN | Like Emperor Haile Selassie? (9) |
| SIEGE | Selassie generals hold military blockade (5) |
