| TAIHAPE | Gumboot Capital of the World, in the Rangitikei District of the North Island (7) |
| MANGA | Take the rail out of Rangitikei township to see Japanese comics and cartoons (5) |
| JAMESON | Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and News Of The World in the 1970s and '80s (5,7) |
| AMAZING | Teams of two travel around the world in the reality competition show, The ___ Race (7) |
| RUAPEHU | Active stratovolcano in the middle of the North Island - w 6dn (5,7) |
| ADELPHI | District of the City of Westminster named after London's first neo-classical building. built by the Adam brothers (7) |
| CHABLIS | Most northerly wine district of the Burgundy region of France (7) |
| EASTHAM | A district of the London borough of Newham, east of Charing Cross (4,3) |
| SHEDIAC | 'The Lobster Capital of the World' in New Brunswick |
| SKEETER | -- Davis, 1931-2004, singer with hit 'End of the World' in 1963 (7) |
| TWOFOLD | Doubly leaders of the world in times past (7) |
| BATAVIA | Ancient district of the Netherlands (7) |
| HAWKEBAY | Section of the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand stretching from the Mahia Peninsula in the northeast to Cape Kidnappers/Te Kauwae-a-Maui in the southwest |
| ENGINEERS | Builders and designers of roads, bridges and manufacturing equipment in most of the world, in the US |
| NAURU | Smallest island state in the world, in the SW Pacific just south of the equator (5) |
| BORNEO | Third-largest island in the world, in the western Pacific southeast of the Malay Peninsula (6) |
| MARS | One of the worlds in "The War of the Worlds" |
| ASTEROID | It causes the end of the world in Seeking a Friend for the End of the World |
| PITCHLAKE | Largest natural deposit of bitumen in the world, in the coastal town of Le Brea in SW Trinidad (5,4) |
| TITICACA | Highest navigable lake in the world, in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Peru (8) |
