| SPACERACE | Competition that led to the Apollo 11 moon landing |
| EAGLE | Aquiline bird of prey whose name was given to the Apollo 11 lunar module that became the first crewed vehicle to land on the Moon (5) |
| ROLLINGSTONES | Band who were at No 3 in the UK singles chart at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing |
| ARTEMIS | NASA's successor to the Apollo space program, fittingly enough |
| BUZZALDRIN | Lunar module pilot on the Apollo 11 mission and one of the first two humans to land on the moon: 2 wds. |
| COLUMBIA | Command module on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon in 1969 (8) |
| BIGBANG | According to cosmological theories the event/explosion that led to the formation of the universe (3,4) |
| EDSA | The avenue in Manila (Philippines) which made concrete before the world the Filipinos' people power that led to the fall of Marcos from power |
| DUMBARTONOAKS | Historic estate in Washington, DC that was the scene of conferences in 1944 that led to the creation of the United Nations (9,4) |
| DUMBARTON | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations (9) |
| OAKS | Estate in the District of Columbia, US, that hosted a 1944 conference that led to the formation of the United Nations (4) |
| SHOTFORTHEMOON | Drink to toast the Apollo 11 landing? |
| NINETY | 19__, year of the terrible aeroplane crash that led to the village of Beckindale changing its name to Emmerdale (6-5) |
| REVOLUTION | Series of events in 1917 that led to the formation of the USSR, the Russian ... |
| IRANIAN | ____ Revolution, popular uprising that led to the overthrow of the Shah in the late 1970s (7) |
| EMS | German town associated with the 1870 dispatch from Bismarck that led to the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War |
| MAASTRICHT | Dutch city associated with a treaty that led to the creation of the European Union and the Euro |
| NIXON | Which president welcomed home the Apollo 11 astronauts after their 1969 Moon landing? (5) |
| ASWANDAM | The engineering feat that led to the creation of Lake Nasser? (5,3) |
| GIJANE | Movie in the joke that led to the Will Smith/Chris Rock slap |
