| CRUX | The central thing |
| PATASSE | What is the last name of the president of the Central African Republic who was deposed by the rebel |
| BRESTLITOVSK | Name given to the treaty signed by the Bolsheviks and the Central Powers to end Russia's participation in the first world war (5-7) |
| GREATWALL | Defensive structure constructed in the 3c B.C. stretching from the Yellow Sea to the central Asian d |
| SUN | The star that is the central object of the solar system (3) |
| HIBERNIA | What is the name of the central statue atop the GPO, due to appear on commemorative 1916 ?2 coins? ( |
| ELOBEID | City in the central Sudan that was scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi i |
| GREYMATTER | Serving to process information in the brain, one of the types of tissue forming part of the central |
| HOLDEN | ___ Caulfield is the central character in The Catcher in the Rye. (6) |
| MARTYMCFLY | Who is the central character in the Back to the Future films? (5,5) |
| BILBOBAGGINS | Who is the central character in the The Hobbit? (5,7) |
| SUGAR | Who is the central figure on the BBC show The Apprentice? (5) |
| CORE | The central innermost part of anything / 'the heart of the matter' |
| OHIO | A state of the central US, in the Midwest on Lake Erie, nicknamed the Buckeye State (4) |
| GARONNE | A river in Southwest France, rising in the central Pyrenees, flowing through the city of Bordeaux and into the Atlantic (7) |
| INNER | The central part of the earth: the ..... core (5) |
| HAWAII | A state in the United States in the central Pacific on the Hawaiian Islands. |
| OCTAGONAL | Shape of the central hall of the Taj Mahal and the exterior of Shakespeare's Globe |
| OFCHINA | Defensive structure constructed in the 3c B.C. stretching from the Yellow Sea to the central Asian desert (5,4,2,5) |
| LEONID | General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982 (6,8) |
