| African republic inhabitant | 27 |
| African republic colonized by freed American slaves | 51 |
| African republic (formerly) | 27 |
| African republic | 16 |
| African reptiles | 16 |
| African region totaling 1.2 million square miles | 48 |
| African region including Khartoum and Timbuktu | 46 |
| African region | 14 |
| African reedbucks | 17 |
| African reed instruments | 24 |
| African ravines | 15 |
| African ravine | 14 |
| African raptor | 14 |
| African ranger | 14 |
| African range rovers | 20 |
| African range | 13 |
| African queen of old, familiarly | 32 |
| African Queen e.g. | 22 |
| African pullover | 16 |
| African province | 16 |
| African primate | 15 |
| African president's tenure? | 31 |
| African predator | 16 |
| African prairies | 16 |
| African prairie | 15 |
| African potentate | 17 |
| African port of 2.2 million | 27 |
| African port | 12 |
| African political movement | 26 |
| African point, or Dracula's cloak of optimism? | 50 |
| African plateau area | 20 |
| African plateau | 15 |
| African plants, informally | 26 |
| African plants | 14 |
| African plant whose leaves are chewed as a stimulant | 52 |
| African plant | 13 |
| African plains grazers | 22 |
| African plains grazer | 21 |
| African plain | 13 |
| African pests | 13 |
| African pest | 12 |
| African people: Var. | 20 |
| African people | 14 |
| African peninsula | 17 |
| African pen | 11 |
| African peak | 12 |
| African pastureland | 19 |
| African pastoral people | 23 |
| African parasite | 16 |
| African palms | 13 |
| African painter? | 16 |
| African outings | 15 |
| African outing | 14 |
| African outback | 15 |
| African orchids | 15 |
| African OPEC member | 19 |
| African oil giant | 17 |
| African of Dutch descent | 24 |
| African nut tree | 16 |
| African nut | 11 |
| African nomad who hasn't had a thing to drink? | 50 |
| African Nobelist for Peace | 26 |
| African natives | 15 |
| African native village | 22 |
| African native | 14 |
| African nation's former name | 32 |
| African nation with a green, yellow, and red flag | 49 |
| African nation with a crane on its flag | 39 |
| African nation that practiced Mobutism | 38 |
| African nation SW of Zaire | 26 |
| African nation since 1993 | 25 |
| African nation or boy's name | 32 |
| African nation founder Jomo ___ | 31 |
| African nation bordered by Mauritania | 37 |
| African nation | 14 |
| African monkey | 14 |
| African mongooses | 17 |
| African mongoose | 16 |
| African money units: Var. | 25 |
| African money | 13 |
| African monarchy | 16 |
| African model | 13 |
| African migrators | 17 |
| African metropolis | 18 |
| African menaces | 15 |
| African menace | 14 |
| African member of OPEC | 22 |
| African media corp. | 19 |
| African master | 14 |
| African marsh-dwelling snake | 28 |
| African mammals, for short | 26 |
| African mammal that's the ancestor of the donkey | 52 |
| African mammal that eats ants, termites, and cucumbers | 54 |
| African mammal | 14 |
| African maize | 13 |
| African mahogany | 16 |
| African lute | 12 |
| African lumberer | 16 |
| African long-finned ___ (fish) | 30 |
| African locale | 14 |