| BAHAMAS | The ___ , archipelago northwest of the West Indies that gained independence in 1973 (7) |
| TRINIDAD | Island in the West Indies that was united with Tobago in 1888 as a single colony (8) |
| CAYMANISLANDS | With the capital George Town, an archipelago northwest of Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic and St Barts (6,7) |
| PASSAGE | Route from the Atlantic to Pacific Ocean through the Canadian archipelago, Northwest ... |
| NAMIBIA | A republic in southern Africa that gained independence in 1990 |
| ERITREA | NE African state that gained independence in 1993 (7) |
| ANDOVER | Hampshire town on the River Anton, west of Basingstoke and northwest of the city of Winchester (7) |
| NIGERIA | Country in west Africa that gained independence from British rule in October 1960 (7) |
| BOLIVIA | South American country that gained independence from Spain in 1825 |
| ANTIGUAANDBARBUDA | Caribbean state that gained independence in 1981 (7,3,7) |
| ZUIDERZEE | Shallow bay of the North Sea in the northwest of the Netherlands that hosted sailing events for the |
| ERITREAN | One from African country that gained independence in 1993 (8) |
| ZAIRE | Country that gained independence in 1960 |
| CONNAUGHT | Anglicised spelling of a province in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland |
| HEBRIDES | The ___, archipelago of over 500 islands off the NW coast of Scotland (8) |
| AZORES | The ___, archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean forming an autonomous region of Portugal (6) |
| BANYAN | The tree Ficus benghalensis, of tropical India and the East Indies, that has aerial roots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks |
| DUNES | Low hills of sand, noted examples in Mallorca are in the northwest of the island around Cala Mesquida and between Puerto Alcudia and Can Picafort (5) |
| GULAG | "The ___ Archipelago" (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn work about forced labor in the Soviet Union) |
| TEAK | The tree Tectona grandis of the East Indies that yields a hard resinous yellowish-brown wood |
