| OLDMAN | The former fellow's probably retired |
| RHEIMS | Town on the Seine that was the capital of the former province of Champagne (6) |
| RABAUL | Capital (in the interwar period) of the former Australian-administered Territory of New Guinea, on the island of New Britain (6) |
| WATUSI | A dance craze in the early 1960s, named after the former name for the Tutsi people of Africa (6) |
| JATAKA | From Sanskrit for "born", the name of any one of a garland or treasury of birth stories recalling the former lives of the Buddha (6) |
| HARRIS | Author of some 16 novels including the Cicero Trilogy and his recent title, Precipice, which is based on the love affair/letters between the former PM H H Asquith and Venetia Stanley (6) |
| SPEECH | The odds on the former EEC hard to address (6) |
| TUVALU | Country in the Pacific, the former Ellice Islands (6) |
| ORACLE | The former teletext service of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (6) |
| EXTENT | The area of the former camping item (6) |
| SMYRNA | The former name of the Turkish city of Izmir (6) |
| SKOPJE | The capital of (the Former Yugoslav Republic of) Macedonia |
| TSINAN | What, along with Chinan, was one of the former names for the capital of China's Shandong province? ( |
| MYSORE | What is the former name of the state of Karnataka? (6) |
| CASABA | Melon coming from the name of the former name of Turgutlu, a town in Turkey |
| ANGKOR | Large area of ruins of NW Cambodia containing ... Thom, the capital of the former Khmer Empire (6) |
| ANGORA | Breed of rabbit or cat, the former name for the Turkish capital (6) |
| VIENNA | Capital of the former Habsburg empire and current home of The Spanish Riding School (6) |
| OLEVEL | The former basic stage of the General Certificate of Education, replaced by GCSE (1,5) |
| ISRAEL | Asian republic on the Mediterranean Sea established in 1948 in the former British mandate of Palestine |
