| TREELESS | As the Nullarbor Plain (if its name is to be believed) |
| PLAIN | Flat expanse of land, such as the Nullarbor (5) |
| CREED | The Amerindian God is to be believed (5) |
| MAKECERTAIN | Corroborate tackier name is to be replaced (4,7) |
| FINIAL | Architectural feature erected in plain, if tasteful, fashion (6) |
| ANNUL | Declare invalid some of the Australian Nullarbor Plains (5) |
| INSTANT | Nullarbor Plains tan takes hold within minutes (7) |
| ENDORSE | To sign one's name is to do what (7) |
| EARL | Word that follows My Name Is to give the title of a 2000s US sitcom (4) |
| EXPONENTS | They show their art when they expose the Nullarbor as starting in the Territory (9) |
| NULL | Having no legal force on the Nullarbor |
| BORAX | A glass manufacturing substance found in the Nullarbor axis |
| ANGLAIS | Paired with "cor", one of the woodwinds forming part of the instrumentation of Tchaikovsky's score for the Christmas ballet The Nutcracker that, despite its name, is neither English nor a horn (7) |
| MARALAGO | Property of former President Trump raided by the FBI on Aug. 8; its name is Spanish for "sea-to-lake," so called because it borders both the Atlantic and Lake Worth Lagoon |
| UAE | The end of its name is also its natl. airline |
| UTAH | Its name is said to mean "people of the mountains" |
| IDAHO | Its name is completely fabricated despite being "translated" as "gem of the mountains" |
| MINORCA | Mediterranean island that, despite its name, is the second largest in its archipelago |
| EAST | Where Krakatoa is in relation to Java, if disaster movies are to be believed (4) |
| CRETACEOUS | The last period of the Mesozoic Era. Its name is derived from creta, Latin for "chalk." |
