| NEDLUDD | 18th Century farmer in Leicestershire, England who was alleged to have destroyed industrial machiner |
| SOCALLED | Thus named, it was alleged (2-6) |
| LUDD | Ned ?, supposed Leicestershire weaver alleged to have destroyed industrial machinery in the late 18th century (4) |
| SIMNEL | Lambert, pretender to the throne of England who was crowned in Dublin as Edward VI (6) |
| EDMUND | I was the King of England who was murdered in 946 (6) |
| SANTORINI | Island whose volcanic eruption is rumored to have destroyed Atlantis |
| ZOFFANY | Artist and adventurer alleged to have engaged in cannibalism when he was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean; his works include Charles Towneley in the Park St Gallery and Tribuna of the Uffizi (7) |
| EDGAR | 'The A†theling,' last member of the Anglo-Saxon royal house of England who was proclaimed King of England in 1066 |
| JAMESI | King of England who was married to Anne of Denmark |
| ARTHUR | Eldest son of Henry VII of England who was Prince of Wales until his death in 1502 (6) |
| ANNEBOLEYN | Queen of England who was mother to Elizabeth I (4,6) |
| WOODLAND | Descriptive of a large area covered in decking? Must have destroyed this area to make it (8) |
| LIN | Chinese military leader, alleged to have plotted against Mao, who died in a plane crash in 1971 (3,4) |
| BIAO | Chinese military leader, alleged to have plotted against Mao, who died in a plane crash in 1971 (3,4) |
| LUDDITES | 19th century English handicraftsmen who destroyed industrial machinery (8) |
| EWEYN | Known as Forkbeard, the first Viking king of England who was the father of Canute the Great (5) |
| IRONSIDE | Edmund, Anglo-Saxon King of England who was the son of Ethelred the Unready (8) |
| ESMERALDA | Sailiing ship in the Chilean navy, this training vessel is alleged to have been used for detention and torture in the post-Allende period |
| DISAGREEABLE | Less than pleasant, Beria's alleged to have snuffed out Leninists' leader in a rage (12) |
| CLAIMED | .. and is alleged to have demanded changes to declaim or decimal (7) |
