| RUMP | ? Parliament, name given to the UK legislature also called the Purged Parliament which sat from 1648-53 (4) |
| THEALLIES | Collective name given to the UK, US, USSR and other aligned powers during the World War II (3,6) |
| PRIDESPURGE | The 1648 expulsion from the Long Parliament of members hostile to the New Model Army (6,5) |
| EUROMPS | Also known as MEPs, these representatives are elected to serve in the Parliament which meets in Brus |
| RUMPPARLIAMENT | English legislative body in force from 1648 to 1653 |
| SANMARINO | Europe's oldest state (officially it was at war with Sweden from 1648 until 1996) (3,6) |
| THOMASPRIDE | New Model Army officer who brought about the expulsion of Royalist and Presbyterian MPs from Parliament in 1648 (6,5) |
| EDUSKUNTA | The single-chamber Finnish parliament which is elected every four years (9) |
| PARLIAMENT | UK legislature (10) |
| HOTSEAT | In which sat the head of organisation shakily? |
| LIVERPOOL | British port city which in 1648 recorded its first landing of cargo from America (9) |
| ALTHING | Icelandic parliament which has been in existence for over a thousand years (7) |
| PARROT | Bird which sat on Long John Silver's shoulder (6) |
| STALLION | Large maned male on which sat jockeys? |
| OSNABRUCK | City in Lower Saxony where a treaty was signed ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648 (9) |
| WESTPHALIA | Peace of ___ , series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648 (10) |
| BUCKINGHAM | Dukedom of the 1648-1721 poet and Tory politician John Sheffield (10) |
| FRONDE | The ------, civil wars in France (1648-53) |
| PEMBROKE | Welsh town, home to a castle where Henry Tudor was born in 1457 that was later besieged during Charles I's reign by Oliver Cromwell's troops in 1648 (8) |
| MILITANT | ___ tendency, extreme leftist group purged from Labour in the 1980s (8) |
