| EZRAPOUND | Expatriate American poet arrested for treason in 1945 |
| PROVIDENCE | At end of war, poet arrested by coppers gets tender care |
| PIERRE | Vichy Government head, shot for treason in 1945 (6,5) |
| LAVAL | Vichy Government head, shot for treason in 1945 (6,5) |
| PETAIN | Philippe --, French soldier and statesman, imprisoned for treason in 1945 (6) |
| EZRA | First name of the influential modernist American poet who was charged with treason in 1945 (4) |
| THOMASCROMWELL | King Henry VIII's chief adviser largely responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries, executed for treason in 1540 (6,8) |
| CASEMENT | Roger ___, Irish nationalist hanged by the British for treason in 1916 (8) |
| BURR | Aaron ___, US Republican vice president tried for treason in 1807 (4) |
| NEY | Michel ?, French marshal executed for treason in 1815 (3) |
| LAUD | Archbishop of Canterbury executed for treason in 1645 (4) |
| RALEIGH | English navigator executed for treason in 1618 |
| ROGERCASEMENT | British diplomat hanged by the British for treason in 1916 |
| DREYFUS | Alfred, French army officer falsely imprisoned for treason in 1894 (7) |
| ALFREDDREYFUS | French army officer whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 prompted Emile Zola to write the pamphlet J'accuse |
| JOHNBROWN | *Abolitionist who was the first person executed for treason in the United States |
| ESSEX | Earl of ---, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England executed for treason in 1601 (5) |
| WALLACE | See 32A, Scottish knight and landowner, executed for treason in 1305, who inspired the 1995 film Braveheart |
| WILLIAM | See 32A, Scottish knight and landowner, executed for treason in 1305, who inspired the 1995 film Braveheart |
| SIR | British statesman who refused to take the oath of supremacy to Henry VIII as head of the Church and was executed for high treason in 1535 (3,6,4) |
