| ROCKISLAND | Site of the largest government-owned U.S. arsenal |
| ICBM | Part of the U.S. arsenal |
| CHURCHROCK | Site of the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history |
| VERDUN | Site of the largest and longest battle of the First World War, lasting 10 months (6) |
| RIO | Site of the largest carnival in the world, per Guinness |
| AMIENS | Former capital of Picardy, site of the largest Gothic cathedral in France, home to Jules Verne for some 34 years (6) |
| ROYALMINT | Government-owned company producing up to 90 million coins and blanks a week, some of which are subject to the periodic trial of the pyx procedure (5,4) |
| OKINAWA | Site of the largest WWII Allied Pacific amphibious assault |
| BARCELONA | Site of the largest sports arena in Europe |
| CROWCORPORATION | Big, government-owned enterprise that's for the birds? |
| TOTE | The ___ was a government owned bookmaker, 1928-2011 |
| SAIL | Government owned steel producer: (abbr.) |
| IIM | Central government-owned-public business school (abbr.) |
| NATIONALBANKS | Government-owned financial institutions |
| PRIVATEER | Non-government owned warship |
| NATIONALISE | Make government owned |
| TAKLAMAKAN | Desert of Central Asia and one of the largest sandy deserts in the world, occupying the central part of the Tarim Basin in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. (5,5) |
| EXPLORER | Name for the first space satellite orbited by the United States, in 1958, and any of the largest series of uncrewed U.S. spacecraft, consisting of 55 scientific satellites launched between 1958 and 19 |
| AUSTRALIA | The smallest of today's continents and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. (9) |
| KRILL | From Norwegian for "small fish fry", a micro crustacean forming one of Earth's largest biomasses and constituting the principal food of the largest living animal, the blue whale (5) |
