| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien, French revolutionary leader who died in 1794 (11) |
| DANTON | French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille (6) |
| PANCHOVILLA | Mexican revolutionary leader who died in 1923 (6,5) |
| FIDELCASTRO | Former revolutionary leader who survived more than 600 assassination attempts (5,6) |
| VILLA | Pancho -, Mexican revolutionary leader who died in 1923 (5) |
| LENIN | A series of strokes ended the career of this Russian revolutionary leader, who died in 1924 (5) |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| DALTON | John, English chemist who described colour blindness in 1794 (6) |
| LIVRE | French coin discontinued in 1794 |
| MARAT | French revolutionary leader stabbed to death in his bath in 1793 (5) |
| OBAN | Ferry port in the West Coast (pop about 9,000), with a distillery founded in 1794 (4) |
| HOLYTHURSDAY | Poem by William Blake, first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794 |
| ODESSA | Ukrainian city, founded in 1794 by a decree of Catherine the Great (6) |
| CALVI | Nelson lost an eye during a siege of this Corsican seaport in 1794 |
| BIT | One eighth of a dollar, before US currency became decimal in 1794 |
| THETYGER | Poem by William Blake published in 1794 (3,5) |
| GUEVARA | Che ___, Argentine revolutionary leader who served as second-in-command to Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution (1956-9) |
| MARATHI | French revolutionary leader says hello in Indian language (7) |
| COTTON | Back in 1794, Eli Whitney changed America by inventing an engine (or "gin") which could separate the fibers of this fluffy, white crop from its seeds |
| YTTRIUM | Chemical element discovered by Johan Gadolin in 1794, represented by the letter Y (7) |
