| KIRIBATI | This country extends 1,800 miles (2,900 km) eastward from the 16 Gilbert Islands, where the population is concentrated, to the Line Islands. |
| SPOLIAVERUNT | Exuerunt, populati sunt, deripuerunt |
| INDUS | Long Asian river, rising in Tibet and flowing 1,800 miles into the Arabian Sea (5) |
| JAPAN | Country with the second greatest number of McDonald's restaurants after the U.S. [2,900+] |
| CONGO | Long African river, rising in Zambia and flowing 2,900 miles into the Atlantic (5) |
| MANTLE | Geological layer that's about 1,800 miles thick |
| EE | Creator of about 2,900 poems, _ _ cummings (2) |
| ELBURZ | Major mountain range in northern Iran that is 560 miles (900 km) long. This range, most broadly defined, extends in an arc eastward from the frontier with Azerbaijan southwest of the Caspian Sea to th |
| JERSEY | Pullover or sweater that derives its name from the largest of the Channel Islands, where the knitting of worsted articles was a staple industry (6) |
| SARK | Smallest of the four main Channel Islands, where the head of the island traditionally lives at La Seigneurie (4) |
| MAHE | Largest of the Seychelles islands, where the endangered jellyfish tree is endemic (4) |
| YANGTZE | The longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea (7) |
| INLAND | Eastward from the Pacific coast, e.g. |
| TARAWA | Coral atoll of the Gilbert Islands in the westcentral Pacific Ocean; location of Bairiki, the administrative centre of Kiribati (6) |
| CARIBBEAN | Popular destination of islands where the show at |
| PERSIAN | Cyrus the Great ruled this empire, which extended from the Aegean Sea eastward to the Indus River. (7) |
| CROSSBILL | Finch that is a resident in the Balearic Islands where it likes to nest in pine trees, the Catalan name for this bird is trencapinyons, which means pine- nut cracker |
| BRAHMAPUTR | 1,800-mile river of South Asia |
| SENECA | 1,800 years before Lincoln, he observed that "a great man can come from a cabin" |
| POTATO | Solanaceous plant first cultivated in the Andes for its edible tubers about 1,800 years ago (6) |
