| SWAHILI | Widely used language of east and central Africa (7) |
| UGALI | Popular maize porridge of East and Central Africa similar to the Italian polenta and American grits (5) |
| YURT | Circular tent traditionally used by nomads of East and Central Asia (4) |
| YURTS | Circular tents traditionally used by nomads of East and Central Asia (5) |
| ENGLISH | Widely used language (7) |
| CARACAL | Also known as the desert lynx, or Persian lynx, this short-tailed cat is found in the hills, deserts, and plains of Africa, the Middle East, and central and southwestern Asia. |
| COLOBUS | Leaf-eating monkey of west and central Africa (7) |
| NILOTIC | A group of languages of East Africa including Luo, Dinka and Masai |
| MIDWEST | US states including Illinois -- location of East and South? (7) |
| BENGALI | Language of East India |
| TWAIN | 'Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the ___ shall meet' (Rudyard Kipling 'The Ballad of East and West' (1889) |
| ELAND | Large, spiral-horned antelope of East and South Africa (5) |
| LEINSTER | Province of east and south-east Ireland (8) |
| BANTU | Group of peoples who inhabit southern, eastern and central Africa (5) |
| ROYAL | ___ python, constrictor of West and Central Africa (5) |
| SOMALI | Language of East Africa with over six million speakers (6) |
| BIBLEBELT | Region in the South East and central part of the USA characterised by socially conservative Christia |
| GULFOFGUINEA | Geography (iii): Area of the Atlantic Ocean between West and Central Africa (4,2,6) |
| HELMUTKOHL | Chancellor who oversaw the reunification of East and West Germany (6,4) |
| SHTETL | Name for a Jewish village or settlement in east and central Europe before the Holocaust (6) |
