| VIETCONG | Communist-led Asian guerrilla force active from 1954 to 1976 (8) |
| COMMANDO | Member of a specialist British military force, active in 1940-46 (8) |
| GREECE | European country which had a civil war from 1946-1949 as communist-led forces tried to overthrow the government (6) |
| CHETNIKS | Serbian guerrilla force formed in 1941 against Axis powers, which sometimes collaborated, strategically, with those powers (8) |
| HELMSMAN | The Great ___: unofficial title given to Mao Zedong, China's leader from 1949 to 1976 (8) |
| DIMAGGIO | Joe ?, US baseball player married to Marilyn Monroe from 1954-55 (8) |
| SLAMDUNK | Basketball shot where a player leaps above the hoop, banned by the NCAA from 1967 to 1976 (4,4) |
| REDGUARD | Which militant youth movement carried out attacks on intellectuals in China from 1966 to 1976? (3,5) |
| VIETNAM | Asian country, divided north and south from 1954 to 1975 (7) |
| LUCKYJIM | Kingsley Amis novel from 1954 (5,3) |
| RENECOTY | President of the French Republic from 1954-59 (4,4) |
| KGB | Soviet spy group from 1954 to 1991: Abbr. |
| STROESSNER | Military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989 |
| CRESTA | Vauxhall saloon model produced in the UK from 1954 to 1972 (6) |
| HOCHIMINH | Who was president of North Vietnam from 1954 to 1969? (2,3,4) |
| RICHARDBAKER | Late broadcaster who was a BBC newsreader from 1954 to 1982 (7,5) |
| SEATO | Alliance from 1954 to 1977 |
| HUSKY | Model name for Hillman's small estate-car version of the Hillman Minx and Imp from 1954 to 1970 (5) |
| MARMADUKE | Great Dane in a newspaper comic strip drawn by Brad Anderson from 1954 to 2015 (9) |
| STEVE | ___ Allen co-creator and first host of NBC's The Tonight Show from 1954 to 1957 |
