| BEAUTYCONTESTS | Competitions that have been the targets of some feminist protests |
| LED | He would have been the target market for The High Numbers (3) |
| RIOT | Pussy ___ (feminist protest band) |
| DENMARK | Anne of ____ , wife of James I of England and one of the targets of the Gunpowder Plot (7) |
| MEASLES | One of the targets of the MMR vaccine |
| NATIONAL | Famous UK steeplechase race that is the target of animal rights protests, the Grand ... |
| LEDA | Moon that was discovered in 1974 and named for a woman in Greek myth who was believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had seduced her in the form of a swan) of Pollux and of Helen (4) |
| NASTY | Unkind adjective that some feminists have reclaimed |
| BRA | Garment that was burned by some feminists in the 1970s |
| RELAYRACES | Track competitions that always have multiple winners |
| ROADEOS | Competitions that might conclude with the semi finals |
| MOTORSPORTS | Category of competitions that includes Nascar, demolition derbies, and go-kart races |
| OMAGH | Principal town of County Tyrone that, in 1998, was the target of an incident that became known as No |
| EASTINDIES | South East Asia and the spice islands that were the target of Dutch, English and Portuguese navigators in the 17th century (4,6) |
| GARTH | The -; mountain on the outskirts of Cardiff said to have been the inspiration for The Englishman Who Went up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (5) |
| IXION | King of the Lapiths in Thessaly said to have been the ancestor of the centaurs (5) |
| ARGYLL | Earls and, later, Dukes of _have been the titular heads of the Clan Campbell since the Middle Ages (6) |
| BORA | Identify the first name of this Serbian who is the only person to have been the manager of five different countries in five consecutive World Cups. (4) |
| ENDS | Finishes off, having hit the targets (4) |
| WOMYN | Half of humanity, to some feminists |
