| MALDIVES | With the coconut palm as its national tree, island nation that once used cowrie shells as its currency (8) |
| DENTON | Steve ......, American who partnered Kevin Curren to win the US Open men's doubles title in 1982 (6) |
| COCO | The coconut palm |
| NEPAL | Nation that once featured Shah rule |
| PACHISI | Backgammon- or ludo-like Indian game whose name, derived from the Hindi for "25", refers to the highest score achieved with cowrie shells (7) |
| PARCHEESI | Classic board game adapted from an Indian game played with cowrie shells |
| CYPRESS | Tree island, they say? |
| ZIMBI | A cowrie shell used as money (5) |
| PORCELAIN | From Italian for "cowrie shell", a white translucent ceramic material with a finish reminiscent of a polished shell; or, chinaware made from this (9) |
| PESEWA | From Akan for "penny worth of gold dust", a Ghanaian coin equal to 1/100 of a "cowrie shell" cedi (6) |
| ARUBA | Which island, off the coast of Venezuela, is an autonomous division of the Netherlands, has Dutch as its national language and Oranjestad as its capital? (5) |
| EGYPT | Country with koshari as its national dish and eagle as its national bird (5) |
| ESTONIA | Flat Baltic country with the capital Tallinn and the poem Kalevipoeg as its national epic (7) |
| YWCA | Org. that once used the slogan "In Service for the Girls of the World" |
| ARMENIA | Country and former Soviet republic that uses the dram as its national currency (7) |
| FIST | Hand with the fingers clenched into the palm, as for hitting (4) |
| DST | Sorority that once had Dorothy Height as its national president, for short |
| SPAIN | EU country with the red carnation as its national flower (5) |
| NAURU | Island nation that uses the Australian dollar as currency |
| PALAU | Island nation that was once part of the Spanish East Indies |
