| OXUS | Former name of the Amu Darya |
| KARAKUM | Great sandy region in Central Asia lying south of the Amu Darya river and occupying about 70 percent of the area of Turkmenistan. (7) |
| ARAL | ___ Sea, outlet of the Amu Darya |
| USTYURT | Plateau in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, lying between the Aral Sea and the Amu Darya river delta in the east and the Mangyshlak (Tupqarghan) Plateau and the Kara-Bogaz-Gol (Garabogazkol; an inlet of the |
| ARALSEA | Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan's slowly dying inland sea once fed by the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers ( |
| ZAIRE | Former name of the African state now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (5) |
| AGANA | Former name of the capital of the Pacific island of Guam (5) |
| LINES | Former name of the units of magnetic flux known as maxwells; ancestral or chronological sequences of people; rows of printed or written words; or, railway tracks (5) |
| SPICE | The --- Islands was the former name of the Moluccas (5) |
| LEWES | Former name of the upper course of the Yukon |
| SMYRNA | The former name of the Turkish city of Izmir (6) |
| DAHOMEY | The former name of the African republic of Benin (7) |
| BURMA | The former name of the country of Myanmar (5) |
| FERNANDOPO | The former name of the island of Bioko (8,2) |
| ASIA | Amu Darya setting |
| BEZWADA | What is the former name of the Indian city where the Prakasam barrage, a long road bridge, crosses t |
| CIVILIZATION | Canadian Museum of ___ (Former name of the canadian Museum of history in Gati- neau, Quebec) |
| MYSORE | What is the former name of the state of Karnataka? (6) |
| SPANISHMAIN | Former name of the northern coast of South America between the Orinoco River and Panama (7,4) |
| UPPERVOLTA | Former name of the West African territory Burkina Faso, the Republic of ... (5,5) |
