| REIGNOFTERROR | A period of the French Revolution (5,2,6) |
| TERREUR | La ..., a period of the French Revolution following the creation of the First Republic when massacres and executions took place (7) |
| REIGN | ... of Terror, period of the French Revolution when supreme power was in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety and the Jacobins (5) |
| TERROR | Reign of-, frenzied period of the French Revolution (6) |
| DEVONIAN | Of a period of the Palaeozoic era (8) |
| ERA | A period of the English artist (3) |
| DURATION | Period of the French helping (8) |
| SIDEREALMONTH | Period of the moon's orbit |
| CARBONIFEROUS | Period of the Paleozoic era |
| STORMING | - of the Bastille; an event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution (8) |
| TALEOFTWOCITIES | A ---, 1859 novel set around the time of the French Revolution |
| EGALITE | One of the three tenets of the French Revolution (7) |
| TALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, A ... Two Cit |
| NORMAN | US soprano who sang the Marseillaise in Paris for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Jessye |
| BASTILLE | Prison fortress whose storming by a Parisian mob in 1789 signified the start of the French Revolution (8) |
| MARSEILLAISE | The strain of the French Revolution (12) |
| MARQUIS | Squirm uncomfortably around a victim of the French revolution? |
| MARIEANTOINETTE | Queen at the start of the French Revolution (5,10) |
| FRAUD | Rip-off, for the most part, German woman of the French Revolution (5) |
| ATALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, ... Two Citie |
