Clues for the word "ZAIRE"
We've had 109 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 179 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on December 17, 2025.
Referring Clues
- Former country name
- New ___ (Congolese money)
- Where Ali KO'd Foreman, 1974
- Old name for Kinshasa's country
- Congo Basin river
- Congo, once
- Country name from 1971-97
- Congo, formerly
- Rumble in the Jungle setting
- Site of Ali's Rumble in the Jungle
- Where Ali dethroned Foreman
- Congo's name before 1997
- Kinshasa's country, once
- Kinshasha's country, once
- "Rumble in the Jungle" locale
- Where Ali kayoed Foreman
- Country that gained independence in 1960
- Democratic Republic of Congo's old name
- Site of Ali's "Rumble in the Jungle"
- Mobutu's land
- Where Ali upset Foreman in 1974
- African republic
- Old name of Congo
- 1990s war locale
- 1971-97 nation name
- Democratic Republic of the Congo's former name
- Neighbor of Portuguese West Africa, on old maps
- Where Mobutu Sese Seko ruled
- Where Ali beat Foreman in "The Rumble in the Jungle"
- Congo's old name
- Mobutu was its president
- Central African Empire neighbor, on old maps
- Ali-Foreman fight location
- Site of the 1974 fight known as "The Rumble in the Jungle"
- Kinshasa's country, formerly
- Congo's former name
- Congo's one-time name
- Site of the Ali-Foreman rumble
- Kinshasa was its capital
- Former central African republic
- Belgian Congo renamed
- African country renamed in 1997
- Former name for Congo
- '70s-'90s Angola neighbor
- African nation's former name
- Onetime African country
- The Congo, before
- The Congo, formerly
- African republic from 1971 until 1997
- Country now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Congo's alternate name
- Setting for the 1996 documentary "When We Were Kings"
- Old country name or its currency, both dropped in 1997
- Congo, from 1971 to 1997
- Old name for the Congo
- Former name of a Congolese nation
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, once
- "New" currency replaced by the Congolese franc
- Old name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly
- Mobutu ruled it
- Ali fought there
- Bygone country name or its currency
- Name on some old maps of Africa
- African nation
- The Congolese franc replaced it
- Old name of the Congo
- Congo's other name
- Congo's name, 1971-1997
- UN roster name, 1971-97
- Tanzania neighbor, formerly
- Where Ali fought Foreman
- African nation renamed in 1997
- '70s-'90s African state
- Kinshasa's land, formerly
- Former name of the Congo
- African nation where Ali KO'd Foreman
- Belgian Congo today
- Name on African maps (at least up to 1997)
- Former name of Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Former name for the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Until 1997 the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Mobutu Sese Seko's nation
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Old country with two sharp bends on river
- Site of a 1974 fight won by 40-Across
- African country
- Where, formerly, putting the finish before the start led to anger!
- Congo, now
- Large African river or middle-sized English one
- Where Ali won his 1974 world heavyweight title
- African country with a middle-sized river
- African river longer than an English one
- Nation west of Rwanda, formerly
- Former name for the DRC
- Angola's northern neighbor, once
- Former name of sub-Saharan Africa's largest country
- Former country with a middle sized river!
- Locale of 1974's Rumble in the Jungle
- The Congo, before 1997
- Former name of Africa's Congo
- Former name of the second-largest country in Africa
- Former name for the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Former name of Kinshasa's country
- Former Congo name
- Former African country, and its currency
- Old African country with a middle-sized river
- Old country with aviation centre
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - December 17, 2025
- Daily American - June 02, 2025
- New York Times - April 19, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - February 24, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 13, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 12, 2024
- New York Times - November 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 02, 2024
- Daily American - August 15, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 09, 2024
- New York Times - April 07, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - March 24, 2024
- Daily American - March 23, 2024
- Daily American - February 10, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 19, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - December 24, 2023
- New Zealand Herald - July 04, 2023
- Daily American - June 02, 2023
- LA Times - April 19, 2023
- USA Today - April 05, 2023
- Your Life Choices - March 29, 2023
- LA Times - February 08, 2023
- LA Times - January 22, 2023
- New York Times - October 07, 2022
- Mindfood Daily - August 31, 2022
- Daily American - August 15, 2022
- Guardian Cryptic - January 31, 2018
- USA Today - December 22, 2017
- Universal - November 14, 2017
- New Zealand Herald - October 14, 2017
- And in 149 more crossword puzzles...