| DOLIVEIRA | Cricketer who became a symbol of the fight against sporting apartheid (1'8) |
| CASTRO | Fidel, Cuban political leader who became a symbol of communist revolution in Central America (6) |
| VESTIBULE | Lobby against sporting blue ties (9) |
| NATIONWIDE | Race against sporting extra all round the country (10) |
| FORAFRICA | Released to help fund the fight against famine and disease, the 1985 hit We Are The World was recorded by United Support Of Artists ... (3,6) |
| RISINGSUN | Sign ruins became a symbol of Japan (6,3) |
| IMRANKHAN | Cricketer who became prime minister of Pakistan (5,4) |
| TROWELLED | After start of the fight the Spanish managed to get plastered (9) |
| BUTTERFLY | Billowy wings painted by artists. Float in the garden. A symbol of the USA anti-war movement. (9) |
| MINUTEMAN | Fighter used as a symbol of the National Guard |
| PITTI | Ambitious Florentine banker whose commission of a landmark palace to outshine the palazzo of his rivals, the Medici, ironically became a symbol of their enduring reign (5) |
| SEDITIOUS | Encouraging people to fight against, or oppose, the authority of a state (9) |
| MACREADY | Pilot who leads the fight against The Thing (8) |
| REDFLAG | This traditional signal of defiance became a symbol of left-wing politics after being used in the Fr |
| ODYSSEUS | Hero in an epic poem by Homer whose wife Penelope became a symbol of fidelity (8) |
| STALWART | Strong to the last, fighting the fight against time (8) |
| TREADMILL | Having exercise machine, fight against bit of spare tyre |
| CHILE | Gabriela Mistral, a poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945 and was described as "a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world," belonged to this country |
| SHEPPARD | David, the England test cricketer who became bishop of Liverpool (8) |
| THEART | Christo ..., head of the centre for local community rights, has been leading the fight against metro overbilling and corruption. (6) |
