| ALLAH | "Lord of the Worlds" in the Quran |
| MARS | One of the worlds in "The War of the Worlds" |
| JUGGERNAUT | Loanword that means 'lord of the world' in Sanskrit |
| ORSON | ___ Welles, U.S. actor who narrated a radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds in 1938 (5) |
| WAYNE | Jeff ---, American musician who released a musical version of HG Wells' The War Of The Worlds in 1978 (5) |
| JEFFWAYNE | American musician who released a musical adaptation of H G Wells's novel The War of the Worlds in 1978 (4,5) |
| ENGINEERS | Builders and designers of roads, bridges and manufacturing equipment in most of the world, in the US |
| TAIHAPE | Gumboot Capital of the World, in the Rangitikei District of the North Island (7) |
| JAMESON | Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and News Of The World in the 1970s and '80s (5,7) |
| PITCHLAKE | Largest natural deposit of bitumen in the world, in the coastal town of Le Brea in SW Trinidad (5,4) |
| NAURU | Smallest island state in the world, in the SW Pacific just south of the equator (5) |
| TITICACA | Highest navigable lake in the world, in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru (8) |
| BORNEO | Third-largest island in the world, in the western Pacific southeast of the Malay Peninsula (6) |
| KIRITIMATI | Largest atoll in the world, in the Line Islands of the west central Pacific (10) |
| SHEBA | Queen in the Bible unnamed except for her country; Balkis or Bilkis in the Quran (5) |
| EDEN | Place with a tree of immortality in the Quran |
| DANNY | He was the champion of the world in the Roald Dahl story for children |
| AMAZING | Teams of two travel around the world in the reality competition show, The ___ Race (7) |
| AKRON | ____, Ohio was the "Rubber Capital of the World" in the 20th century |
| NANGAPARBAT | Ninth-highest mountain in the world, in the Himalayas of northern Pakistan; known locally as Diamir (5,6) |
