| DIKED | like the Netherlands' coast |
| TULIP | With the worlds largest permanent display at the Keukenhof and used to symbolise perfect or deep love, the national flower of the Netherlands (5) |
| FOKKER | Anthony, the 'Flying Dutchman', who made fighter aircraft for Germany in the First World War and later established companies in the US and the Netherlands (6) |
| HAGUE | The ... is the seat of government of the Netherlands (5) |
| RANDSTAD | Region in the Netherlands consisting primarily of the cities Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utr |
| ARUBA | Island off the N.W. coast of Venezuela that was part of the Netherlands Antilles until 1986 (5) |
| KERKRADE | City in the Netherlands on the German border formerly associated with the coal-mining industry (8) |
| SGRAVENHAGE | The Dutch name for the third largest city in the Netherlands (1,10) |
| DELFTWARE | Type of blue and white pottery made in the Netherlands predominantly from the 16th- to the 18th-centuries |
| APELDOORN | City in the Netherlands, in central Gelderland province, close to Het Loo, the summer residence of the Dutch royal family |
| ORANGE | The royal family of the Netherlands is the House of - (6) |
| LEIDEN | City in the Netherlands that was the residence of the Pilgrim Fathers for 11 years before they sailed for America in 1620 |
| SCHNAPPS | The spirit of the Netherlands (8) |
| ANTILLES | The Netherlands - are islands in the Caribbean |
| HILVERSUM | The "media city" of the Netherlands |
| UTRECHT | The curt upheaval here in the Netherlands |
| THEHAGUE | The seat of government of the Netherlands |
| DIARY | Anne Frank's journal of her life in hiding during Nazi occupation of The Netherlands, The ... Of A Y |
| FIELDHOCKEY | RIO 2016: In the Men's Tournament, canada faces The netherlands in it today, August 9th: 2 wds. |
| HOOKOFHOLLAND | Port on cape on south-west coast of the Netherlands (4,2,7) |
