| COLOMBIA | Country in South America (456,535 sq miles; pop about 50 million), independent from Spain in 1810 (8) |
| MEXICO | World's 11th most populous country, which became independent from Spain in 1810 (6) |
| CAMBODIA | Country in south-east Asia (71,000 square miles; pop about 15 million), independent from France in 1953 (8) |
| TOGO | A country in West Africa (pop about 9 million), independent from France since 1960 (4) |
| THAI | Language of about 50 million |
| ASIA | India joined it about 50 million years ago |
| CHLORINE | Chemical element discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele in 1774 but named by Sir Humphry Davy in 1810 (8) |
| JACOBSON | Israel ******** , German religious reformer who held the first Reform services in 1810 (8) |
| THREATEN | Menace in 1810 (8) |
| PEUGEOT | The oldest car company in the world, founded in France in 1810 (7) |
| ALMEIDA | Portuguese town besieged by the Spanish in 1762 and the French in 1810 (7) |
| LORDBYRON | "She Walks in Beauty" poet who in 1810 became the first known person to swim across Turkey's Dardanelles Strait |
| TAMIL | What language is spoken by some 50 million people in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Fiji, South Africa and Singapore? (5) |
| BOLIVIA | South American country that gained independence from Spain in 1825 |
| CHILE | South American country which achieved independence from Spain in 1818 (5) |
| VIETNAM | Country with a red national flag bearing a yellow/gold star, declared independent from France in 194 |
| CHAD | A republic in central Africa that became independent from France in 1960 (4) |
| BISSAU | Republic in West Africa that became independent from Portugal in 1974 (6-6) |
| GUINEA | Republic in West Africa that became independent from Portugal in 1974 (6-6) |
| TENPASTSIX | Steps in tax distribution in 1810? (3,4,3) |
