| POPOV | Oleg -, Russian clown who in 1955 became the first to tour outside his home country |
| LSO | Founded in 1904, in 1963 this British orchestra was the first to tour Japan (1,1,1) |
| ROSAPARKS | Civil rights activist who in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger |
| SHECHTMAN | Recipient of the 2011 Nobel Prize for his discovery of quasicrystals, he also ran for president in his home country Israel (last name only) |
| LAUNCELOT | In 2.2, what is the name of the Clown who is introduced? |
| MAELSTROM | State of confusion in Salem about first to tour non-European capital (9) |
| DWINDLED | Democrat with victory was first to tour Germany reduced in strength (8) |
| ITALO | Writer Calvino whose first name is one letter off from his home country |
| JAMESRODRIGUEZ | This former Real Madrid and Bayern Munich star bears the most common surname of his home country, Colombia |
| WARZONE | Cricketer outside his own country, spinning in theatre of combat (3,4) |
| KLEE | This artist has a museum dedicated to his work outside his hometown of Bern. (4) |
| EGGPLANT | Why did the foolish farmer spread fertilizer outside his chicken coop? Because he wanted to grow an ___ |
| HOSPITALITY | Welcome sort of posh Italian in his home country (11) |
| CLARENCE | Chap from Irish county eager at first to tour North Carolina |
| STARRYNIGHT | The ___, 1889 painting by Vincent van Gogh depicting the view outside his sanitorium room window at Saint-Remy-de-Provence |
| TOMMYWOODCOCK | Phar Lap's strapper who slept outside his stable (5,8) |
| KRUSTY | Clown who features in The Simpsons. (6) |
| POPOFF | Old Russian clown is said to die (3,3) |
| MRTUMBLE | Justin Fletcher's CBeebies clown who knows how to sign (2,6) |
| DANRICE | Clown who was the model for Thomas Nast's Uncle Sam |
