| BIKO | Steve of South Africa (and the subject of Cry Freedom) |
| KLINE | Kevin of "Cry Freedom" |
| SAUSAGEDOG | South Africa and the States for example, back and pursue the pet (7,3) |
| LUCREZIABORGIA | The illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI, and the subject of scandalous rumour |
| MATADOR | Hero with a cape, and the subject of a Gretchen Peters song with the line "I knew it when I threw the rose" |
| CRAWFORD | Joan ___, actor and the subject of the memoir, Mommie Dearest (8) |
| ASSEGAI | Lance from South Africa and the donkey, for example, travel towards first class (7) |
| ASARULE | Normally a game between South Africa and the French (2,1,4) |
| SAME | South Africa and the Middle East are identical (4) |
| GALT | Main character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged and the subject of the constant question, 'Who is |
| ESPERANTO | Invention described in the 1887 book "Unua Libro" (and the subject of this puzzle's quotation) |
| INGRAM | Charles, disgraced former British major and the subject of the play Quiz, later adapted for TV (6) |
| MOTH | Insect found in the theme entries (and the subject of a famous joke told by Norm Macdonald) |
| DAVIDBOWIE | Rock legend who hoaxed the art world in 1998 by promoting Nat Tate, a nonexistent painter and the subject of a novel presented as a full-length biography |
| FIBER | Coconut matting and organic basket liners are this - and the subjects of this week's Miscellany have plenty of it to aid digestion! (5) |
| KAZAKHSTAN | Place in entertainment news, and the subject of this puzzle |
| SLEEPING | Fairytale - and the subject of a prince's attentions (8,6) |
| CANE | Raspberry ___, blackberry ___ and the subject of this week's Miscellany! (4) |
| LIONS | Known as the "kings of the jungle", animals living in prides in savannas, grasslands and forests of India and Africa, and the Longleat estate in Wilshire (5) |
| JONES | American locomotive engineer - killed in a train crash and the subject of a famous ballad (5, 5) |
