| ELAL | Airline formed in 1948 |
| SAS | Airline formed in 1946 |
| TWA | Airline formed in 1930 |
| BEA | Airline formed after WWII to provide Britain with domestic and European flights (1,1,1) |
| ISRAEL | Republic formed in 1948 (6) |
| OAS | Gp. formed in 1948 |
| HUTCHINSON | English book publisher, founded in London in 1887, noted for its single volume encyclopedia, first published in 1948 (10) |
| BERNADOTTE | Count Folke, United Nations mediator in Palestine who was assassinated in 1948 (10) |
| CANDID | --- Camera, practical joke TV series created by Allen Funt in the US in 1948 (6) |
| NORTHKOREA | Country in East Asia, became a people's republic in 1948 (5,5) |
| BIFFO | Fictional bear who first featured in The Beano in 1948 (5) |
| CHESSMAN | Caryl ___, imprisoned in 1948 until his execution in 1960, who wrote of his time on 'death row' (8) |
| FLORAROBSON | Actress Dame ____ was noted for her role in Captain Brassbound's Conversion in 1948 |
| TSELIOT | British poet, born in the United States, who won the Nobel prize for literature in 1948 (1,1,5) |
| BENELUX | Customs union formed by Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 1948 (7) |
| HARDLABOUR | Penalty added to a prison sentence abolished in England and Wales in 1948 (4,6) |
| HORNE | In Words And Music in 1948, Lena ... sang the Rodgers %26 Hart favourite The Lady Is A Tramp |
| WEEKES | West Indies Test cricketer who in 1948/9 completed five centuries in successive innings against England and India (7) |
| EVERTON | West Indies Test cricketer who in 1948/9 completed five centuries in successive innings against England and India (7) |
| PETERLEE | A new town in County Durham, founded in 1948 (8) |
