| SUSPENSIONBRIDGE | The world's longest crosses Japan's Akashi Strait |
| OBI | Akashi accessory |
| SUMO | Japanese style of wrestling whose first yokozuna (' grand champion') was Akashi Shiganosuke (c. 1600- 1649) (4) |
| AFRICA | Containing the world's longest river, the largest hot desert and home to the biggest land mammal, the secondlargest continent on Earth (6) |
| HANGZHOU | The Grand Canal of China, the world's longest canal, connects Beijing to which city, also known for being the headquarters of the Alibaba Group? |
| EAUDENIL | Pale pastel-green hue named for its supposed resemblance to the colour of the water of the river credited as the world's longest (3,2,3) |
| CHRISTIE | Best-selling novelist of all time who penned the Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple novels as well as the world's longest-running play - The Mousetrap (8) |
| AMOY | English name of Xiamen, China's "garden by the sea" in the Fujian province that is home to the world's longest elevated cyclepath (4) |
| RAILWAY | Southend has the world's longest pier and the longest pier ___ (7) |
| LAST | The world's longest running sitcom, ... of the Summer Wine (4) |
| MOUSETRAP | The -; Agatha Christie mystery; the world's longest-running play (9) |
| ANDES | South America and the world's longest mountain range, the ... |
| DINGO | The world's longest fence was constructed in 1880 to keep this Australian wild dog out of the fertil |
| COVEREDBRIDGE | The world's longest one is located in the New Brunswick town of Hartland: 2 wds. |
| HERCULES | The ___ beetle is native to tropical rainforests and is notable for being the world's longest beetle (8) |
| ESSEX | County in England, home to the oldest recorded Roman town in Britain and the world's longest pleasure pier (5) |
| VOLGA | The world's longest river flowing into an inland body of water rather than the sea |
| PYTHON | With a maximum recorded length of 9.6 metres (31.5 feet), the reticulated ___ is the world's longest living snake. |
| MACAW | The hyacinth species of which bird is the world's longest parrot? (5) |
| PANORAMA | Launched in 1953 by the BBC, what is the world's longest-running news television programme? (8) |
