| MARTYRS | Britain's Trades Union Congress runs an annual festival to celebrate the workers' rights pioneers kn |
| TRALEE | Irish town, known for its annual festival to crown the Rose (6) |
| FRANCES | The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (7,6) |
| OGRADY | The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (7,6) |
| TUC | The Trades Union Congress, in short (3) |
| JDPOWER | Company that runs an annual Vehicle Dependability Study |
| NSA | Government org. that runs an annual Codebreaker Challenge |
| RUTHMACKENZIE | Who left the position of Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival to take up a position in the SA Government, making way for Brett Sheehy to step into the post as 2025 Director? (4,9) |
| PURIM | Jewish festival to commemorate the the people's rescue from a plot by Haman (5) |
| OSS | WWII US intelligence organisation and forerunner of the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services was kn |
| MOE | In The Simpsons (from 1989), which down-on-his-luck bartender runs an eponymous bar frequented by Homer and the others, and whose voice is played by Hank Azaria? (3) |
| TULIP | One of the flower types displayed at an annual festival held in Amsterdam (5) |
| TOMATOES | Projectiles thrown in an annual festival in the Spanish town of Bunol |
| WAGNER | German composer whose work is celebrated at an annual festival in the city of Bayreuth (6) |
| FROG | With around 4,800 recorded species, an amphibian that drinks by absorbing water through its skin, kn |
| USED | Turn of some of the trades unions to be employed (4) |
| DREADS | Fears director runs an eye over the books (6) |
| CANDIDATE | Person who runs an addict about to get drug (9) |
| TWINSBURGOHIO | Site of an annual festival celebrating pairs like those in this puzzle |
| GLYNDEBOURNE | Estate in East Sussex, England that hosts an annual festival of opera (12) |
