| NATIONALTRUST | Conservationists having the country's confidence (8,5) |
| PETERTHEGREAT | Ruler who created the Russian navy and introduced the country's rst newspaper (5,3,5) |
| MIGRATIONLAWS | "... the country's ___." |
| OVERSTATEMENT | Exaggeration appears to suit the country's rulers to a T (13) |
| CAPITALOFZAIRE | Z (By the way, I made this puzzle in mid-May 1997 when the country was still called this, and by the time the puzzle came out in newspapers just two weeks later, the country's name had been changed. |
| HAGUE | The _, the third-largest city in the Netherlands, also the country's administrative centre (5) |
| DIENBIENPHU | The result of which battle led to the French leaving Vietnam and the country's division into North a |
| GUADALCANAL | Province and island of the Solomon Islands in the S.W. Pacific that contains the country's capital H |
| COIMBRA | The capital of Portugal from 1190 to 1260 and the seat of the country's oldest university |
| MAPUTOBAY | Inlet of the Indian Ocean on the southern coast of Mozambique, location of the country's largest port (6,3) |
| DORIAN | The hurricane that struck the Bahamas, causing the country's worst natural disaster |
| TUNISIA | According to Greek legend, Dido founded the city of Carthage in this country in the 9th century BCE. That city is now a suburb of the country's capital. |
| BALLARAT | Australian city in the state of Victoria that was at the heart of the country's 1850s Gold Rush (8) |
| GREATLEAP | The attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959-60 to solve the country's economic problems (5,4,7) |
| FORWARD | The attempt by the People's Republic of China in 1959-60 to solve the country's economic problems (5,4,7) |
| STATE | Such the craft of managing the country's affairs (5) |
| NIGER | The country's back on the drink! (5) |
| WAGE | The Federal Labor Standards Act determines the country's minimum ___ |
| BUCURESTI | The Romanian spelling of the country's capital city |
| COMICALALI | Nickname given to Iraq's Minister for Information at the time of the country's invasion in 2003. (7,3) |
