| Country trio -- Antebellum | 26 |
| Country towers | 14 |
| Country to which Leon Trotsky was exiled | 40 |
| Country Time suffix | 19 |
| Country that's won one Olympic gold medal | 45 |
| Country that's over 50% desert | 34 |
| Country that's nearly 25 times as long as its average width | 63 |
| Country that's just 8 square miles in area | 46 |
| Country that's been independent for more than 350 years | 59 |
| Country that's also a Van Halen hit | 39 |
| Country that's almost pure? | 31 |
| Country that won medals only in cross-country skiing in Torino | 62 |
| Country that won its first Olympic medal in 2004 | 48 |
| Country that surrounds Lesotho: Abbr. | 37 |
| Country that styles itself a "democratic socialist republic" | 70 |
| Country that split into North and South in July 2011 | 52 |
| Country that split in two in 2011 | 33 |
| Country that skips every other letter in the starred answers | 60 |
| Country that seceded from Colombia | 34 |
| Country that recently certified its election results, thus forever ending any doubt about the legitimacy thereof, totally | 121 |
| Country that recently "built 500 objects contributable to raising the level of modernization," per its website | 120 |
| Country that produces great runners | 35 |
| Country that owns the Canary Islands | 36 |
| Country that once owned Alaska | 30 |
| Country that joined NATO in 1999 | 32 |
| Country that includes the islands of Gozo and Comino | 52 |
| Country that includes Bohemia | 29 |
| Country that incl. Sharjah | 26 |
| Country that hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics | 44 |
| Country that has won the most Cricket World Cups | 48 |
| Country that had banana-shaped stamps | 37 |
| Country that got its current name in 1935 | 41 |
| Country that gained independence in 1960 | 40 |
| Country that forbids the importation of nontherapeutic chewing gum | 66 |
| Country that eliminated the United States at the last two World Cups | 68 |
| Country that disappeared in '91 | 35 |
| Country that changed its name in 1939 and again in 1949 | 55 |
| Country that changed its name in 1939 | 37 |
| Country that celebrates March 17th | 34 |
| Country that can trace its history to the Proto-Elamite period | 62 |
| Country that calls itself the "Abode of Peace" | 56 |
| Country that borders Lake Victoria | 34 |
| Country that becomes its official language when you drop the final letter | 73 |
| Country that attracts safarigoers | 33 |
| Country swing, perhaps | 22 |
| Country suspended from the Organization of American States in 1962 | 66 |
| Country surrounded by South Africa | 34 |
| Country superstar McEntire | 26 |
| Country superstar Haggard | 25 |
| Country subject to 2006 U.N. sanctions | 38 |
| Country straddling two continents | 33 |
| Country stores? | 15 |
| Country store? | 14 |
| Country stops | 13 |
| Country stopovers | 17 |
| Country stopover | 16 |
| Country statistics | 18 |
| Country statistic | 17 |
| Country stat. | 13 |
| Country star's sitcom | 25 |
| Country star ___ Lynne | 22 |
| Country star Yearwood | 21 |
| Country star who sang "Roses in the Snow" | 51 |
| Country star West | 17 |
| Country star Urban | 18 |
| Country star Tucker | 19 |
| Country star Travis | 19 |
| Country star Steve | 18 |
| Country star Sara | 17 |
| Country star Rimes | 18 |
| Country star Randy | 18 |
| Country star McGraw | 19 |
| Country star McEntire | 21 |
| Country star Lynn | 17 |
| Country star Lovett | 19 |
| Country star LeAnn | 18 |
| Country star known for hot alcoholic drinks? | 44 |
| Country star Keith | 18 |
| Country star Jackson | 20 |
| Country star Gill | 17 |
| Country star Clark or Gibbs | 27 |
| Country star Brooks | 19 |
| Country standard that begins "Love is a burning thing" | 64 |
| Country standard | 16 |
| Country squares? | 16 |
| Country square? | 15 |
| Country spread | 14 |
| Country split into prefectures | 30 |
| Country south of Turk. | 22 |
| Country south of Sicily | 23 |
| Country south of Libya | 22 |
| Country south of Iran | 21 |
| Country south of Florida | 24 |
| Country south of Ecuador | 24 |
| Country south of Braz. | 22 |
| Country sound | 13 |
| Country songwriting legend | 26 |
| Country songfests | 17 |
| Country song? | 13 |
| Country song in which "c-u-s-t-o-d-y" is spelled out | 62 |