| NATO | US and European organisation formed in 1949 (4) |
| RYDER | Golf competition between US & European teams, ... Cup |
| OPEC | Organisation formed in 1960 to agree on policy for the production and sale of petroleum (4) |
| RNLI | Voluntary organisation formed in 1824 to operate an offshore rescue service (4) |
| EPIC | Quite a long story for detective in old European organisation (4) |
| CERN | European Organisation for Nuclear Research (4) |
| RSPB | Conservation organisation formed by an amalgamation of the Plumage League and Fin, Fur and Feather Folk (4) |
| EXEC | Old European organisation accepts unspecified amount from blunt business person |
| NAACP | US civil rights organisation formed in 1909 (1,1,1,1,1) |
| UNITE | ___ the Union, organisation formed in 2007 from a merger of Amicus and the TGWU (5) |
| UNITEDNATIONS | Intergovernmental organisation formed in 1945 to maintain international peace and security among nations (6,7) |
| CBI | Business organisation formed in 1965 whose current Director-General is Carolyn Fairbairn |
| BFI | UK film organisation formed in 1933 (1,1,1) |
| EPL | Association football organisation formed in 1888 (1,1,1) |
| INTERPOL | Organisation formed in 1923 to facilitate global police cooperation (8) |
| RESISTANCE | French -; also called the Maquis, an armed underground organisation formed in France during the Seco |
| EXPEDITE | Send forth deputy, in short, to exit European organisation (8) |
| SEUSS | Writer and cartoonist depicts three heads of state seen around European organisation |
| EMBODY | Represent Frenchman in European organisation (6) |
| RAJASTHAN | Largest state of India by area, formed in 1949 from the merging of 22 smaller kingdoms and principalities (9) |
