| COSSACK | Any of the free warriorpeasants of chiefly east Slavonic descent who lived in communes and served as cavalry under the tsars (7) |
| INSECTS | Hexapods found in communes? (7) |
| RUSSIAN | Badly run, as is this East Slavonic language branch |
| TISSOT | Which French painter moved to London after his involvement with the Paris Commune and painted sumptu |
| FONTAINEBLEAU | Commune and forest about 50 km south of Paris (13) |
| ANCIENTMONUMENT | Tenant in commune has altered preserved building |
| CONVERSE | Study poetry in commune (8) |
| HAVEL | Dramatist who wrote the 1963 play The Garden Party and served as the first President of the Czech Republic (5) |
| DAVIDHESSAYON | Botanist of Cypriot descent who wrote the series of gardening manuals known as the "Expert Guides" (5,8) |
| ARTHURTAPPAN | American businessman who co-founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833 and served as its first president |
| DAVY | Self-taught Cornish chemist who discovered several elements, invented a safety lamp for miners and served as president of the Royal Society from 1820-27 (4) |
| WESTMORELAND | William ___, General who commanded US military operations during the Tet Offensive and served as US Army Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1972 |
| MANDELA | He helped end apartheid in South Africa and served as the country's first Black president |
| ISOPODA | Order of chiefly aquatic crustaceans that includes the gribble and the woodlouse (7) |
| NAGRA | Parminder, British actress of Indian descent who played Jess Bhamra in the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham (5) |
| BONARLAW | Surname of the politician of Scots descent who was Prime Minister, 1922-23 (5,3) |
| ESCHERICHIA | Genus of chiefly intestinal bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae whose name is abbreviated in E. coli (11) |
| NIJINSKY | Vaslav ___, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent who died in 1950 |
| NIEMI | US actress of Finnish descent who starred in Steel Dawn and One Last Dance, Lisa _ (5) |
| ADAMA | Spanish footballer of Malian descent who joined Wolverhampton Wanderers from Middlesbrough in 2018 (5,6) |
