| GBR | The UK, to the IOC |
| ELIZABETH | Food writer who introduced post-WWII Britain to the cuisine of the Mediterranean, ... David |
| ALLY | Britain, to the U.S. |
| OPRAHWINFREY | When Chicago became one of the four candidates to host the 2016 Olympics, she traveled to Copenhagen to pitch her adopted hometown to the IOC |
| REMAINED | Name given to a person who voted for the UK to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum (8) |
| SWALLOW | Hirundine that migrates to the UK to breed (7) |
| ANDERSON | Elizabeth Garrett _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , the first woman in the UK to qualify as a professional doctor in 1865 (8) |
| GOWER | Welsh peninsula, the first area in the UK to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, in 1956 |
| LEGAVROCHE | London restaurant that was the first in the UK to be awarded three Michelin stars (2,8) |
| DEVON | County whose seaside village Westward Ho! is the only place in the UK to contain an exclamation mark or "shriek" in its name (5) |
| STJAMES | The royal court of the UK, to which foreign diplomats are accredited (2,5) |
| BLASPHEMY | Crime for which Edinburgh student Thomas Aikenhead was the last person in the UK to be hanged (9) |
| WIGGINS | Winner of multiple medals, this cyclist was the first from the United Kingdom to win the Tour de France |
| RECORDPLAYER | Name later applied in the UK to Thomas Edison's 1877 invention (6,6) |
| DICKIN | ___ Medal, highest award given in the UK to animals serving in military conflicts (6) |
| INDRI | Drive through one part of the UK to see endangered species |
| BETH | The first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Championships and Olympic Games (4,7) |
| TWEDDLE | The first female gymnast from Great Britain to win a medal at the European Championships, World Championships and Olympic Games (4,7) |
| NEP | India neighbor, to the IOC |
| CRO | Zagreb's land to the IOC |
