| Clues | Answers |
| 4/3’s ironic solution to overpopulation | AMODEST |
| 5/3 hit from 2017 (4,4,3,4,2,2) | LOOKWHATYOU |
| A city in Queensland, but a town in Massachusetts and Suffolk? | IPSWICH |
| Dryden play – and a 1623 massacre in Indonesia | AMBOYNA |
| Dutch brewing giant | GROLSCH |
| Erskine Caldwell’s 1932 novel about Georgia sharecroppers | TOBACCOROAD |
| Japanese numbers game | SUDOKU |
| Norman __, author of The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957) | COHN |
| See 14 | PROPOSAL |
| See 5 Across | SWIFT |
| See 6 | MADE |
| See 6 Down | MEDO |
| Singer whose works took all 10 places in the Billboard Hot 100 chart this year | TAYLOR |
| The capital of Norway | OSLO |
| The L in RNLI | LIFEBOAT |
| The third of the Gospels | LUKE |
| Tom __, controversial former Labour deputy leader elevated to the Lords this year | WATSON |
| Town on Anglesey | HOLYHEAD |
| __ 3, Anglo-Irish essayist (1667-1745) | JONATHAN |
| __ Clemens, birth name of Mark Twain | SAMUEL |
| __ Munro, hero of The Last of the Mohicans | CORA |
| __ Thorning-Schmidt, former prime minister of Denmark | HELLE |
