| KELLER | Helen who helped establish the ACLU |
| RAMSAY | Chemist who helped establish the noble gases argon, helium, krypton, neon and xenon as a new group in the periodic table (6) |
| THOMASYOUNG | Polymath who helped establish the wave theory of light and decipher the Rosetta Stone (6,5) |
| ONO | Yoko who helped establish the John Lennon Scholarships |
| FRESNEL | Physicist who helped establish the wave theory of light and invented a lens used in lighthouses (7) |
| IRAALLEN | Member of the Green Mountain Boys who helped establish the University of Vermont |
| BANKS | Sir Joseph ___, botanist who helped establish the gardens at 12 across (5) |
| BEAUFORT | Lady Margaret -; Henry VII's mother and key figure in the Wars of the Roses who helped establish two prominent Cambridge colleges (8) |
| SELIG | Baseball commissioner who helped establish interleague play |
| AMER | Part of the ACLU: Abbr. |
| BAIL | Reform target of the ACLU |
| HUAC | Group that the ACLU wanted abolished |
| NUNN | Georgia senator who helped establish "don't ask, don't tell" |
| FBI | Org. that has been sued by the ACLU over surveillance of racial justice activists |
| MENELAUS | The king of Troy's son Paris went to Greece where he fell in love with and eloped with Helen, who was the king of Sparta's wife. Who was this king? |
| MIRREN | Helen who played the wife in "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover" |
| HAYES | Helen who was the first actress to achieve the EGOT |
| DANTE | Poet whose work helped establish modern Italian |
| DIOMEDES | In Greek myths, a king of Argos and suitor of Helen, who fought with the Greeks at Troy (8) |
| DANIELS | Surname of the Neighbours character Helen who was played by Anne Haddy from 1985-97 (7) |
