| SOLOMONNORTHUP | Abolitionist who wrote "Twelve Years a Slave" |
| JOHNGREENLEAFWHITTIER | US Quaker poet and abolitionist who wrote the ballad Barbara Frietchie |
| SOLOMON | ____ Northup, U.S. farmer who wrote about his time as a slave in the memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| NORTHUP | Solomon ---, American abolitionist, primary author of the 1853 memoir Twelve Years A Slave (7) |
| SLAVE | "Twelve Years a _____" |
| CASANOVA | Who wrote 12 volumes on Casanova? (8) |
| GIACOMOPUCCINI | Composer who wrote 12 operas |
| HAYDN | Austrian composer, 1732-1809, who wrote 12 London symphonies (5) |
| NOELEMONK | Pistols US tour manager who wrote 12 Days On The Road (4,1,4) |
| BROWN | Abolitionist who led a raid on a federal arsenal, contributing to the war's start |
| WILBERFORCE | William, English slave trade abolitionist who died in 1833 (11) |
| SOJOURNERTRUTH | African-American abolitionist who had a memorial bust in her honour unveiled in the U.S. Capitol in 2009 (9,5) |
| MARTINDELANY | Abolitionist who said, "A people, to be free, must necessarily be their own rulers" |
| GARRISON | Abolitionist who founded The Liberator |
| ERASMUS | ____ Darwin, physician and abolitionist who was grandfather of Charles (7) |
| LILY | _ Platt, niece of Nick Tilsley who was born twelve years ago (4) |
| MODI | Prime Minister who highlighted twelve years of Garib Kalyan initiatives. (Last name) (4) |
| ELHI | It accounts for twelve years of schooling, briefly |
| NOONDAY | Twelve years on, and zero changes |
| MMIX | Twelve years ago |
