| CASTRO | Fidel, Cuban political leader who became a symbol of communist revolution in Central America (6) |
| DOLIVEIRA | Cricketer who became a symbol of the fight against sporting apartheid (1'8) |
| ORDERLY | Well-organised Communist revolution in airport (7) |
| SWISSROLLS | Cakes cause revolutions in central Europe (5,5) |
| SEMPLE | Union leader who became a minister in the first Labour Government, 'Fighting Bob' ___ (6) |
| ASHDOWN | Paddy, ex-Liberal Democrat leader who became a peacemaker in war-torn Bosnia (7) |
| ELCID | 11th-century Castilian military leader who became a legendary national hero (2,3) |
| NIKITA | ___ Khrushchev, Soviet leader who became his country's first head of state to visit the U.S. in 1959 (6) |
| DERIDE | Mock communist revolution and knock off case of cider (6) |
| LADDER | Climbing equipment for boy from communist revolution (6) |
| SICKLE | A bit of Communist symbolism for the harvester to use (6) |
| REDFLAG | This traditional signal of defiance became a symbol of left-wing politics after being used in the French Revolution (3,4) |
| 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) |
| HATRED | Strong dislike of Communist wearing headgear (6) |
| CLICHE | Stereotype of communist picketing insurance company (6) |
| REDUCE | Make cuts as result of Communist getting wrong cue (6) |
| ODYSSEUS | Hero in an epic poem by Homer whose wife Penelope became a symbol of fidelity (8) |
| ASPIDISTRA | House plant that became a symbol of middle-class respectability in the eariy 20th century (10) |
| LEFTIE | Person of communist or socialist persuasions (inf.) |
| FLARED | Apartment full of Communist agitator's old hip bags |
