| THEFREEWORLD | Term used during the Cold War to refer to the Western Bloc of non-Communist countries collectively (3,4,5) |
| DOMINOTHEORY | Notion used by successive US administrations during the Cold War to justify the need for American intervention around the world (6,6) |
| FREEWORLD | Cold War term for non-Communist countries (4,5) |
| FEWEST | Least abundant four out of five non-Communist countries |
| THIRDWORLD | This term for the under-developed countries collectively emerged in contrast to the rich, highly developed ones and the Communist bloc economies (5,5) |
| ANOTHER | '__ Place', term used by the House of Commons to refer to the House of Lords, and vice versa |
| HOI | Sometimes mistakenly used to refer to the upper classes, the term ... polloi, derived from Greek, means 'the masses' or 'the common people |
| SPRING | Name, derived from an Old English word originally used to refer to the origin of a stream or well where water rises naturally from the earth, for a season of the year (6) |
| RIND | Old English word for the bark of a tree or peel of fruit that, from the 16th century, also came to refer to the outer layer, paring or skin of a cheese (4) |
| TOILE | French word for "cloth", used to refer to the plain fabric used to create the pattern or muslin for a couture or made-to-measure garment (5) |
| HOLLAND | Region in western Netherlands, sometimes used to refer to the whole of the country |
| HIPS | Term used to refer to the ripe red-orange fruits of the rose (4) |
| DOMINO | A term first originating in US to predict how the fall of one non-communist country would be quickly followed by its neighbours (6,6) |
| BAMBOO | _ Curtain, term for the border between Communist and non-Communist east Asia (6) |
| AIRRAID | Tube stations were used during the war as shelters in the event of this sort of attack (3, 4) |
| NAMIB | A cool coastal desert extending for 1,200 miles (1,900 km) along the Atlantic coast of Africa from Angola southward across Namibia to the Western Cape province of South Africa. |
| ARROWTOWN | In the South Island, tip off the litter to the western extremities (9) |
| ELKWEED | Flowering perennial plant of the Gentian family native to the western US (7) |
| OCCIDENT | A term for the West, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Western world (8) |
| KURDISH | A language belonging to the Western Iranian branch of the Indo- European family (7) |
