| DANTON | Georges, French revolutionary leader and orator guillotined in 1794 (6) |
| ROBESPIERRE | French revolutionary leader and member of the Jacobins (11) |
| OCONNELL | Daniel, Irish nationalist leader and orator who died in 1847 (1'7) |
| FIDEL | First name of the Cuban revolutionary leader and Prime Minister |
| PAINE | American Revolutionary leader and signer of the Declaration of Independence (1731-1814). |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| ODESSA | Ukrainian city, founded in 1794 by a decree of Catherine the Great (6) |
| DALTON | John, English chemist who described colour blindness in 1794 (6) |
| SEURAT | Georges, French pointillist painter born in 1859 (6) |
| CICERO | Marcus Tullius ___ (106-43 BC), Roman statesman and orator who denounced Mark Antony in the speeches known as the Philippics (6) |
| BRAQUE | Georges -, French painter whose works include 1911's Clarinet and Bottle of Rum on a Mantelpiece (6) |
| COTTON | Back in 1794, Eli Whitney changed America by inventing an engine (or "gin") which could separate the fibers of this fluffy, white crop from its seeds |
| MARAT | French revolutionary leader stabbed to death in his bath in 1793 (5) |
| MARATHI | French revolutionary leader says hello in Indian language (7) |
| JUST | Louis Antoine de Saint- ---, French Revolutionary leader guillotined with Robespierre (4) |
| DUBARRY | Madame - -; mistress of Louis XV guillotined in the French Revolution (2,5) |
| CONCORDE | Place de la ____, site in Paris where Marie Antoinette was guillotined in 1793 (8) |
| HOLYTHURSDAY | Poem by William Blake, first published in Songs of Innocence and Experience in 1794 |
| MARATHON | French revolutionary leader leading honourable race (8) |
| MARIE | Queen, guillotined in 1793 (5,10) |
