| MALMO | Swedish port on the Sound that was part of Denmark until 1658 |
| YSTAD | Swedish port on the Baltic |
| ORKNEY | Which islands north of Scotland were ruled by Norway and Denmark until 1472? (6) |
| AGRA | Indian city, capital of the Mogul empire until 1658 (4) |
| ARUBA | Island off the N.W. coast of Venezuela that was part of the Netherlands Antilles until 1986 (5) |
| RIVERISE | Tributary of the Nene, rising in a field that was part of the Battle of Naseby (5,3) |
| AFL | Org. that was part of a 1955 merger, or another org. that was part of a 1970 merger |
| NEIGHBOUR | Border on the sound of a horse and the sound of a pig (9) |
| ORLEANS | Duc d' -; title upon the death of his uncle Gaston of Philippe I who was the younger brother of the Sun King and bought Chateau de Saint- Cloud for 240,000 livres in 1658(7) |
| LEMUR | Creature that was part of the house that Jacques built? |
| NEWZEALANDERS | Fresher gets around part of Denmark with the last of the gooseberries and kiwis (3,10) |
| BELFORDROXO | City in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that was part of Nova Iguacu before 1993 |
| YOUREMUTED | Comment about the silence on Zoom ... and what's spelled out by the sounds that have been removed from the starts of 10 phrases in this puzzle |
| CHANNEL | The sound that will make you cross between the French and the English (7) |
| DAK | Terr. that was part of the Louisiana Purchase |
| IRAN | Country that was part of George W. Bush's "Axis of Evil" |
| ZIMA | Alcopop that was part of the 1990s' "clear craze" |
| EGYPT | Country that was part of the Arab Spring |
| CZECHREPUBLIC | A country that was part of Czechoslovakia until 1993 (5,8) |
| LAMBADA | 1989 song recorded by the French pop group Kaoma that was part of a dance craze |
