| NAMIB | Desert in southern Africa |
| KALAHARI | A large desert in Southern Africa (8) |
| MOJAVE | Desert in southern California |
| NEGEV | A desert in southern Israel |
| GOBI | Desert in southern Mongolia |
| LOBOLO | Practice in Southern Africa in which the bridegroom makes payment cattle etc. for the bride |
| NAMIBIA | A republic in southern Africa that gained independence in 1990 |
| BOTSWANA | Home to the Kalahari Desert, a landlocked country in southern Africa, capital Gaborone (8) |
| HARARE | He trapped a rebel leader twice in town in southern Africa (6) |
| LAAGER | Defensive ring of wagons used by Voortrekkers in southern Africa in the 1830s (6) |
| CECILRHODES | English-born mining magnate and politician who founded a state in Southern Africa in the 1890s (5,6) |
| WINDHOEK | Capital city in southern Africa (pop about 450,000), founded in 1890 (8) |
| LIVINGSTONE | British explorer who, in 1855, we presume, was the first European to see Victoria Falls in southern Africa (11) |
| SHAKA | Founder of the Zulu empire in southern Africa who died in 1828 (5) |
| OMICRON | This COVID19 variant was first detected in southern Africa in Nov 2021 |
| CAHORABASSA | Site on the Zambezi River in Mozambique of the largest dam in southern Africa (6,5) |
| DRYSEASON | April to September, in southern Africa |
| ANGOLAANALOG | Something comparable in southern Africa? |
| LESOTHO | Hostel ruined Oscar in southern Africa (7) |
| VELD | Area of open grassland in Southern Africa |
