| TORIES | Colonists who supported the British |
| CHARLESFOX | An 18th-century British statesman who supported the French Revolution, American independence and the abolition of slavery (7,3) |
| TSARIST | One who supported the rulers of the Russian empire before the 1917 revolution (7) |
| KNIGHTS | _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Of The Round Table, chivalric inner circle who supported the legendary King Arthur (7) |
| DOUGHFACE | Any Northerner who supported the South in the Civil War |
| ATLAS | In Greek mythology, the Titan who supported the heavens on his shoulders |
| TURNIP | "_" Townshend, nickname of the 18th-century politician who supported the use of a certain vegetable in crop rotation (6) |
| ISABELLA | Spanish queen who supported the 1492 expedition of Christopher Columbus to find 'the new world' (8) |
| SEARLE | Berkeley philosophy prof who supported the Free Speech Movement |
| GALILEO | Italian astronomer who supported the Copernican System |
| PIUSIII | Pope who supported the House of Borgia |
| GLYNNE | Jess _, Thursday singer who supported the Spice Girls (6) |
| PILGRIMFATHERS | The group of English colonists who first came to North America on the Mayflower ship in 1620 (7,7) |
| LOSTINSPACE | Popular sci-fi TV series on Netflix based on the family of space colonists who crash-land on an unknown planet: 3 wds. |
| BOER | A descendant of any of the Dutch or Huguenot colonists who settled in South Africa (4) |
| SETTLERS | Colonists who pay their bills? |
| BOERS | Dutch or Huguenot colonists who settled in South Africa |
| SETTLER | Colonist who pays the bills? |
| THELMA | Coronation Street actress who in the 1980s supported the campaign to save the S&C (6,6) |
| BARLOW | Coronation Street actress who in the 1980s supported the campaign to save the S&C (6,6) |
