| CONTRAS | What was the name given to the US-backed right-wing guerrillas of 1980s Nicaragua? (7) |
| DREAMTEAM | Name given to the US men's basketball squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics (5,4) |
| SWATS | Name given to the US Navys special ops Sea, Air and Land teams (5) |
| ACHAIA | Before the Roman conquest in 146 BCE, what was the name given to a strip of land between the Gulf of Corinth in the north and Elis and Arcadia in the south? (6) |
| TITHES | What was the name given to taxes payable to the church, abolished in the 19th century? (6) |
| THIRTEEN | What was the name given to the doctor played by Olivia Wilde in House MD? |
| WEIMAR | What was the name given to the German republic between 1919 and 1933? (6) |
| REDARMY | What was the name given to the former Soviet land forces? (3,4) |
| THEELBOW | What is the name given to the narrowing of the course just before the finish line of the Aintree Gra |
| HARVEST | From the Old English meaning "autumn", the cutting and gathering of crops during the approach to the aforesaid season, or the name given to its corresponding full moon (7) |
| ALPHA | The first Greek letter that, with the second letter "beta", forms the origin of the name given to a system of letters we use to write (5) |
| ISIS | The name given to the River Thames flowing through Oxford is the same as the Egyptian goddess of fer |
| ABSURD | 'Theatre of the -', name given to the plays of a group of dramatists including Beckett and Pinter (6) |
| SATAN | From the Hebrew meaning "the enemy", what is one of the names given to the archangel that Michael fo |
| FLOUR | From a homophonic word for a bloom, in the sense "the best part", the name given to "the finest quality of ground wheat", aka milled grain, for making bread, cakes or pastry (5) |
| LIERNES | Thought to be from "bind" or "clematis", the name given to the connecting decorative ribs forming star patterns in the stellar vaults of Gothic or medieval architecture (7) |
| AXIS | The -, name given to the alliance of Nazi Germany, Italy and Japan formalized by the 1940 Tripartite |
| CONCLAVE | What is the name given to the meeting of cardinals which elects a new Pope? (8) |
| PAMPAS | What is the name given to the vast grassy plains of South America? (6) |
| VESPER | From the Latin for "evening" and root of the word "west", the name given to Venus at sunset (6) |
