| BARBUDA | Coral island in the Caribbean that forms an independent state with Antigua (7) |
| TOBAGO | Island that forms an independent Caribbean republic with Trinidad (6) |
| VATICAN | World's smallest independent state, with "the" |
| ANTIGUA | West Indian island which forms an independent nation with Barbuda (7) |
| HAITI | Country in the Caribbean that occupies the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic (5) |
| ANTILLES | Group of islands in the Caribbean that consist of the Greater ... and Lesser ... (8) |
| QUANGO | Question a new attempt to form an independent organisation (6) |
| BAHAMAS | The _, a group of coral islands in the Caribbean, the capital of which is Nassau (7) |
| MOMBASA | Kenyan port city on a coral island in the Indian Ocean (7) |
| ESTUARY | Area of water, such as The Golden Horn, that forms an inlet of the sea where fresh water mixes with |
| ASSYRIA | Emerging as an independent state in the 14th century BCE, it became a major power in Mesopotamia, Armenia, and sometimes in northern Syria, before declining after the death of Tukulti-Ninurta I about |
| BERMUDA | British overseas territory consisting of a group of more than 150 coral islands in the NW Atlantic (7) |
| NAMIBIA | Forms an ambition to lose weight in the country. (7) |
| LANOLIN | Fatty substance forms an oil in suburbs of London (7) |
| METHANE | Colourless, odourless, flammable gas which forms an explosive mixture with air (7) |
| TATTIES | Blended with taste, it forms an accompaniment for haggis (7) |
| TACKSON | Sir Peter, lacking introduction, takes time instead and forms an attachment (5,2) |
| TEAMSUP | Forms an alliance |
| FIREDAMP | Gas, especially methane, that forms an explosive mixture with air in coal mines (8) |
| THREE | Clock time that forms an "L" with the big and little hands |
