| APARTHEID | What was the system of racial segregation formerly practised in South Africa? (9) |
| IMPERIAL | What was the system of weights and measures in use before the decimal system? (8) |
| HARAKIRI | Ritual suicide formerly practised in Japan by samurai (4-4) |
| DEEPSPACE | Region beyond the system of the earth and moon |
| NAGA | Member of a group of peoples of NE India and NW Myanmar who formerly practised headhunting (4) |
| PLESSY | Homer whose legal challenge to racial segregation was foundational to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling |
| BOERS | Which people, after the Great Trek of 1835-37, settled in the Orange Free State in South Africa? (5) |
| GULAG | One of the system of forced labour camps in the Soviet Union (5) |
| RAND | What is the unit of currency in South Africa? (4) |
| SYLPH | Spirit of the air, as originating in the system of Swiss physician and alchemist Paracelsus (c. 1493-1541) (5) |
| SORBITOL | A sugar alcohol synthesised from potato starch; classified in the system of E numbers as a humectant, and in chemistry by the formula C6H8(OH)6 (8) |
| THREEESTATES | The system of hierarchical order by the clergy, nobles and bourgeoisie, such as in the Ancien Regime (5,7) |
| PATON | Who wrote Cry, the Beloved Country, a book that helped focus global attention on the injustices of apartheid in South Africa? |
| PAPACY | The system of government in the Roman Catholic Church (6) |
| NAPIER | Scottish mathematician, John, who originated the system of logarithms in the 17th century (6) |
| ECONOMIC | Of the system of production and management of material wealth |
| PORTELIZABETH | Left on board with two girls that could be the same person in South Africa? (4,9) |
| YAMS | What are harvested from the Elephant's Foot plant in South Africa? (4) |
| NAACP | Org. formed in 1910 whose goal is the end of racial discrimination and segregation |
| ETHNICAL | The clan I converted in the matter of racial customs |
