| ROANOKE | Lost colony of the 1580s |
| CANDIA | What was the realm, kingdom or duchy of Crete when it was a colony of the Republic of Venice? (6) |
| TUVALU | Polynesian country that formed part of the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands from 1916 to 1976 (6) |
| DUTCH | The former colony of the ___East Indies became Indonesia in 1949 (5) |
| IONIA | Ancient Greek colony of the West coast of Asia Minor (5) |
| HONG | Once a colony of the British Empire, ... Kong |
| COLFER | Eoin, author of the book Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (6) |
| DARE | Virginia of the lost colony |
| TAOS | Art colony of the Southwest |
| QUEENBEE | The female reproductive leader of a colony of honey-producing apians, essential to the life of the hive (5,3) |
| BATAVIA | Capital of the former colony of Dutch East Indies, now the city of Jakarta, Indonesia (7) |
| SWANNERY | Colony of breeding/nesting cobs and pens, the birds associated with the annual tradition of "upping" (8) |
| ROOKERY | A group of the corvids known collectively as a storytelling, nesting high in a clump of trees; or, a colony of seabirds or marine mammals such as penguins, seals or turtles (7) |
| HIVE | Skep or box forming an apiary for a colony of honeybees of the same name; thus, a place of great industry or busyness; or, a teeming crowd (4) |
| ETHIOPIA | On 15th September, 1952, Britain left the former Italian colony of Eritrea which became part of this |
| TIMOR | East ---, a former colony of Portugal, part of the Lesser Sunda Islands (5) |
| CULTURE | The customs, civilization and achievements of a particular time or people / growth and colony of bacteria in a prepared nourishing substance / refinement; breeding |
| ROYALENGINEERS | Part of this British army corps founded the Colony of British Columbia |
| CAPHAITIEN | Port in N Haiti; capital of the French Colony of Saint-Domingue from 1711-70 (3-7) |
| MACAU | Resort city (once a colony of Portugal) dubbed the'Las Vegas of Asia' |
