| BATOCHE | Battle of ___ (North-west Rebellion conflict in Saskatchewan in 1885) |
| TOWTON | Battle of ___, North Yorkshire conflict in the Wars of the Roses fought on Palm Sunday, March, 1461 |
| BISON | Scarcity of this major food source for the Metis in Canada was one reason for the 1885 North-West Rebellion |
| TYRANNOSAURUSREX | Found in Saskatchewan in 1991, Scotty is the nickname of the prehistoric skeleton of one of these, and is the largest ever discovered in the world: 2 wds.. |
| KYLE | Site of a woolly mammoth discovery in Saskatchewan in 1964 |
| HORCUM | Hole of ____, North Yorkshire feature dubbed England's Grand Canyon (6) |
| GDANSK | Middle age Dane missing sweetheart from Saskatchewan in Poland (6) |
| BANFF | Oldest national park in Canada, established in the Rocky Mountains of southern Alberta in 1885 (5) |
| STEELWORKERS | USW = United ___ (North America industrial union, in Canada the national office is in Toronto) |
| MAGNETIC | ____ north, the direction in which the top end of a compass needle will point (8) |
| GORDON | British general killed in the siege of Khartoum in 1885 (6) |
| OTTO | ___ Klemperer, American conductor born in Germany in 1885, internationally noted in opera and concerts (4) |
| BOTSWANA | Landlocked country of southern Africa established as the British protectorate of Bechuanaland in 1885 (8) |
| JUMBO | RT. Barnum elephant killed when struck by a railway locomotive in St. Thomas in Ontario in 1885 |
| TUCSON | U.S. city that is the seat of the University of Arizona founded in 1885 (6) |
| STANFORD | Private co-educational university founded in northern California in 1885, closely involved with the creation of Silicon Valley (8) |
| EUCLA | Which town, now almost a ghost town with many of its buildings hidden under sand dunes, was established near the South Australian border in 1885 as a link in the Overland Telegraph? (5) |
| MIKEY | __ North, actor who plays in Corrie (5) |
| GERMANOCEAN | Relevant to include retrospective business article ___ "North Sea in past"? (6,5) |
| BRAGG | Fort ___, North Carolina site subject to a renaming debate in 2020 |
