| WARCABINET | Churchill formed it in 1940 |
| FOUR | Alluded to in a famous speech delivered by Sir Winston Churchill in 1940, a 24th part of a day (4) |
| BLOOD | Vital "sanguis" offered by Winston Churchill to his cabinet in 1940, along with his toil, tears and sweat (5) |
| BUGSBUNNY | This animated figure made his debut in A Wild Hare in 1940 in which he first uttered the immortal li |
| HOMEGUARD | British citizen army formed in 1940 to defend the UK against invasion, disbanded in 1957 (4,5) |
| MAEWEST | In 1940, which screen star said "I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but it'll be the first time I ever made the dictionary}? (3,4) |
| TROTSKY | Key figure in the 1917 Russian revolution, murdered in Mexico City in 1940 (7) |
| TOMJONES | Knighted vocalist born in Pontypridd in 1940 |
| CLIFFRICHARD | Evergreen singer born Harry Webb in India in 1940 |
| SABU | In 1940 he played the engaging scamp who helped restore Ahmed to his lost throne in The Thief Of Bag |
| RICHARD | Cliff, singer-actor born Harry Webb in Lucknow, India in 1940 (7) |
| NARVIK | Port in N Norway that was scene of two naval battles in 1940 (6) |
| MARCUS | Jamaican Pan-Africanist leader who died in London in 1940 (6,6) |
| LEONTROTSKY | Chief architect of the Russian Revolution, assassinated in Mexico in 1940 (4,7) |
| WINSTON | First name of the prime minister born at Blenheim Palace in 1874 who later lived at Chartwell and delivered his "finest hour" speech in 1940 (7) |
| GOWEST | Film title shared by Buster Keaton in 1925 and the Marx Brothers in 1940 |
| GEORGEMEDAL | Civil decoration in the UK and Commonwealth instituted in 1940, subordinate to the homonymous Cross (6,5) |
| DUNKIRK | English name for the port in Nord, France, that saw a mass evacuation of troops in 1940 (7) |
| NACHOS | Starter invented in 1940 by Ignacio Anaya in Coahuila, Mexico |
| CASGRAIN | Feminist whose activism resulted in Quebec women getting the right to vote in 1940, Therese ___ (b.1896 - d.1981) |
