| MUTUALAID | "The radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world," per Dean Spade |
| ATCROSSPURPOSES | Misunderstanding each other while voting? (2,5,8) |
| REVISORY | Working to change part of helmet grabbed by Spanish king (8) |
| CARE | The work of caring for or attending to someone or something. |
| NURSING | The practice or profession of caring for sick and injured people (7) |
| BLEEDINGHEART | Someone who makes an excessive display of caring for dicentra (8,5) |
| REVOLUTION | What you say you want, according to the Beatles, when we all want to change the world |
| OZZY | ___ Osbourne artist whose song I Don't Want to Change the World won the 1994 Grammy for Best Metal Performance |
| OSCAR | "One of the biggest slobs in the world," per the play |
| INSECT | One of "the little things that run the world," per E.O. Wilson |
| BOLSHEVIK | Member of the radical faction of the Russian socialist party which became the Communist Party in 1918 (9) |
| WEALL | "___ want to change the world" ("Revolution" line) |
| SPIKELEE | Director who cowrote "Giant Steps to Change the World" |
| NYE | "Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World" author Bill ___ |
| HOUSESITTERS | People who take care of the residences of others while they are away (5-7) |
| WINE | "One of the most civilized things in the world," per Hemingway |
| RIO | Site of the largest carnival in the world, per Guinness |
| STILTON | "The best cheese of its type in the world," per George Orwell |
| BICYCLE | What did more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world, per Susan B. Anthony |
| KAREN | Singer Carpenter who had "the best female voice in the world," per Paul McCartney |