| SAINTPAULIA | The African violet genus (11) |
| ERYTHRONIUM | The dog's tooth violet genus (11) |
| SAINPAULIAS | Genus of the African violet (11) |
| EPISCIA | Genus of flowering plants in the African violet family (7) |
| GLOXINIA | House plant related to the African violet (8) |
| ODE | Short poem, as in the African violet variety '___ to Beauty' (3) |
| CYME | In botany, an inflorescence in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers are terminal buds of lateral stems, as in African violet (saintpaulia) (4) |
| CYMES | In botany, inflorescences in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems, eg. African violet (saintpaulia) (5) |
| OLIVERTAMBO | President of the African National Congress who resigned in favour of the recently released Nelson Mandela in 1991 (6,5) |
| GREATERKUDU | The African woodland antelope Tragelaphus strepsiceros (7,4) |
| PORTUGUESEEASTAFRICA | What was the colonial name for the African country where the currency is the metical and languages f |
| HUMPHREYBOGART | Screen legend who won the Oscar for his performance as the Canadian captain of the steam launch in "The African Queen" (1951): 2 wds. |
| ELEPHANT | Thanks to the almost 2000 powerful sensors in its trunk, the African ___ has the best nose in the animal kingdom |
| GREATRIFT | The ... ... Valley was caused by the separation of the African and Arabian tectonic plates (5,4) |
| HUTUS | In the plural, what group, with the Tusia and Twa, populate the African Great Lakes region? (5) |
| OAU | This pan-African body established in the 1960s was replaced by the African Union in 2002 (1,1,1) |
| SAHARA | The desert that stretches across the north of the African continent |
| ZAIRE | Former name of the African state now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5) |
| ACCREDIT | Authorize the African city's brief linking to the surge from the east (8) |
| LAGOS | The sailor follows the convict to the African port (5) |
