| AXISOFEVIL | Iraq, Iran and North Korea made up this threat to the world, as described by US president George W B |
| KURDISTAN | Part of Iraq, Iran and Turkey and home of the Kurds |
| EMERSION | Reappearance of heavenly body, one described by US writer |
| KARAOKE | Leaders from Kenya, America and Korea made an entertainment system (7) |
| MENACE | More than one chap, expert, providing this threat |
| ASLEEP | Dead to the world as zest's on the rise (6) |
| INERT | Dead to the world, as a chemical |
| NEAREAST | World region which includes Iran and North Africa (4,4) |
| SANDPAPER | Stiff sheet coated with Iran and North Africa (4,4) |
| TERRORISTS | "We will make no distinction between the ___ who committed these acts and those who harbour them" - US President George W Bush, 11 September 2001 (10) |
| COLEMAN | Which RTE reporter ruffled some feathers with her interview of US President George W Bush in 2004? (7) |
| KURDISH | Language spoken in Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and Russia by the world's largest ethnic group without its own country (7) |
| AXIS | ___ of Evil (term George W. Bush used for Iran, Iraq, and North Korea) |
| NEWDEAL | Domestic programme of economic and social reform implemented by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to combat the effects of the Great Depression (3,4) |
| BUSH | Former US president, George W... |
| DUBYA | Nickname of former US president George W Bush. (5) |
| UTOPIA | What was the name of the imaginary state said to be perfect, as described by Sir Thomas More in 1516? (6) |
| ROSAPARKS | "I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." She is best known for sparking the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955- |
| JILIN | Province of NE China bordering Russia and North Korea to the east; capital, Changchun (5) |
| EELLIKE | Periodically, we're slyly held up by US president, elusive and slippery (3-4) |
