| GRAMSCI | Antonio ___, co-founder of the Italian Communist Party; imprisoned by Mussolini in 1926 (7) |
| SEDUCEE | One led astray by Mussolini in spot (7) |
| ANTONIO | Italian cultural theorist imprisoned by Mussolini (7,7) |
| ANTONIOGRAMSCI | Italian political thinker imprisoned by Mussolini whose writings include his Prison Notebooks (7,7) |
| RODGERS | William ___, co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in 1981 (7) |
| IMPERIA | Coastal city of Liguria created by Benito Mussolini in 1923 (7) |
| FASCISM | The political doctrine of Benito Mussolini in Italy (7) |
| TOGLAITTI | Palmiro ___, leader of the Italian Communist Party for nearly four decades until his death in 1964 (9) |
| ANTHONY | Susan B. ___ (co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, 1869) |
| BOYCOTT | Rosie ___, co-founder of Spare Rib (7) |
| ELLISON | Larry ___,co-founder of Oracle (7) |
| WOZNIAK | Steve ___, co-founder of Apple (7) |
| REDUCED | Mussolini in debt and impoverished (7) |
| TRADUCE | Speak badly of art ordered by Mussolini (7) |
| CADUCEI | Messengers carried such medical symbols associated with staff, caught and arrested initially by Mussolini, for one (7) |
| GREGORY | Isabella Augusta, Lady ___, co-founder with Yeats of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (7) |
| ENRICOS | Italian Communist Berlinguer and others |
| JACKSON | Jamie ___, co-founder with Mark Pitchers of Capital Carp competitions (7) |
| ENZO | First name of the founder of the Italian sports car manufacturer Ferrari (4) |
| TONE | Wolfe ___, co-founder of the Society of the United Irishmen who died in 1798 (4) |
