| TOLTEC | A member of a Central American Indian people who dominated the valley of Mexico from their capital Tula from about 950-1160 AD |
| TOLTECS | Nahuatl people who dominated the valley of Mexico (c.950-1170) before being overrun by the Aztecs (7) |
| TAMIL | Tongue has a capital T, on reflection |
| RIOT | Tumult formerly with a capital T |
| APACHE | A member of a North American Indian people who dominated much of the S.W. during the 19c (6) |
| AZTEC | A member of a Mexican people who established a great empire centred on the Valley of Mexico (5) |
| YANA | A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California. |
| SEMINOLE | Member of a North American Indian people who moved into Florida in the 18c (8) |
| CARLOTA | Who was the wife of Maximilian the Archduke of Austria and Empress of Mexico from 1864 to 1867? (7) |
| HUN | Member of an Asiatic nomadic people who dominated much of Asia and E. Europe from before 300 B.C. (3) |
| CHEYENNE | Member of an American Indian people who once lived in the Great Plains (8) |
| YUCATAN | A peninsula in Mexico that separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea (7) |
| OLMEC | Member of an ancient Indian people who inhabited the Southern Gulf Coast of Mexico (5) |
| AGUA | Liquid at the end of the names of a Central American country and its capital |
| CORDOBA | Treaty of ___ , agreement of 1821 that established the independence of Mexico from Spain (7) |
| ELLEN | -- Terry, actress who dominated the American and English theatre from 1878 to 1902 in partnership with Henry Irving |
| JUANMANUELFANGIO | Driver from Argentina who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing (4,6,6) |
| HUTU | A member of a Central African people, mainly living in Rwanda and Burundi (4) |
| PRESS | Tamara --, Soviet athlete who dominated the shot put and discus throw in the early 1960s (5) |
| MAYA | Central American Indian people |