| DANTON | A major figure in the French Revolution, whose moderate attitude in the Reign of Terror led to his own public execution (6) |
| CURBSTONE | Moderates attitude by the side of the road (9) |
| ASPECT | A way of viewing one's attitude in the air (6) |
| POSITION | Job's attitude, in the circumstances |
| CHE | Nickname of Ernesto Guevara, a major figure in the Cuban Revolution |
| RAPHAEL | Master painter born in 1483 who was a major figure in the High Renaissance (7) |
| BOONE | Daniel ___, American frontiersman and a major figure in the exploration and settlement of Kentucky (5) |
| ROBESPIERRE | The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution effectively ended with the execution of this prominent leader (11) |
| TIFFANY | Entrepreneur whose acquisition of the French crown jewels led to his nickname of the "king of diamon |
| GUEVARA | Argentine Marxist revolutionary who was a major figure in the Cuban Revolution (7) |
| HERSCHEL | Composer whose construction of a telescope led to his discovery of Uranus in 1781 and subsequent appointment as court astronomer to George III the following year (8) |
| JENNER | First to explain a cuckoo's nesting habits whose later discovery of vaccination led to his recognition as the father of immunology (6) |
| REDDEAN | Anglican Christian Marxist, the Very Reverend Hewlett Johnson, whose sympathy with the USSR led to his nickname 'the ... of Canterbury' (3,4) |
| GEORGESDANTON | The first president of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Revolution (7,6) |
| ERTE | Alias of Romain de Tirtoff, a major figure in Deco |
| TUSSAUD | Marie -; wax sculptress forced to make death masks of guillotine victims during the reign of terror |
| ESAKI | Japanese quantum physicist whose discovery of electron tunnelling led to his design of the tunnel diode (5) |
| MENDEL | Monk whose experiments breeding pea plants led to his discovery of genes, earning him recognition as the father of genetics, albeit posthumously (6) |
| IVAN | Forename of a physiologist whose experiments feeding dogs led to his discovery of classical conditioning (4) |
| REDFLAG | This traditional signal of defiance became a symbol of left-wing politics after being used in the French Revolution (3,4) |
