| RELIGION | According to Karl Marx, what is the opium of the people? (8) |
| KARLMARX | Who first said "Religion...is the opium of the people"? (4,4) |
| SPARTACUS | According to Karl Marx, "'the most splendid fellow in the whole of ancient history" |
| MARX | Who said religion "is the opium of the people" |
| OPIUM | Religion, to Karl Marx |
| EGYPTIAN | The word "gypsy" comes from What word, the supposed original nationality of the people? (8) |
| EARMARKS | Designates peeled pears to Karl, say (8) |
| ARON | 'The Opium of the Intellectuals' author |
| SECULAR | Most of fashion is in brand of the people? (7) |
| HIGHGATE | Suburban area of north London in whose cemetery Karl Marx is buried (8) |
| DEMOCRACY | Government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people? (9) |
| LAMARSEILLAISE | Riviera air promoting the well-being of the people? |
| CHEMNITZ | City in Saxony, Germany, known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt (8) |
| SEALY | Brand for the rest of the people? |
| BRUMAIRE | "The Eighteenth ___ of Louis Napoleon" (Karl Marx publication) |
| CITY | 'What is the ___ but the people?' (Shakespeare Coriolanus act 3, sc. 1) (4) |
| COLERIDGE | Lake poet whose works include Biographia Literaria, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the opium-influenced Kubla Khan (9) |
| NEPHEW | Relation that Erinsborough doctor Darcy Tyler is to Karl and Susan Kennedy (6) |
| CITIZENRY | For the people by the people? (9) |
| POPPY | A "coquelicot", such as the opium or breadseed species, with mawseed often used to feed aviary birds (5) |