| BRIDGEOFSPIES | Historical drama (2015), starring Tom Hanks, about a Cold War prisoner exchange (6,2,5) |
| CRESSIDA | Diomedes acquired her in a prisoner exchange during the Trojan War |
| COMMUNISTPART | Villainous role in a Cold War thriller? |
| PILLOW | If a war prisoner is about to be sick, he'll need this for his head (6) |
| STAR | Post-war, prisoner of war was extracted and became a famous person (4) |
| THATHITSTHEX | Comment about a cold drink on a hot day |
| MACBETH | The neurotic trails, a piece of data about a cold, cruel king (7) |
| SAFEHOUSE | ITV crime drama first broadcast in 2015 starring Christopher Eccleston and Marsha Thomason (4,5) |
| CATACOMB | Cemetery is about a cold presence in the grave (8) |
| MACADAM | Furious in the morning about a cold road surface (7) |
| FOLLY | To be clever about a cold heart in sheer foolishness (5) |
| ITCHING | One thing about a cold that is irritating (7) |
| STALACTITE | Singular story about a cold bird's pendant (10) |
| FRUITSALAD | French adult is excited about a cold dessert (5,5) |
| REYKJAVIK | In 1986, a USSR-US summit meeting here failed to produce the hoped-for arms limitation agreement but was considered a Cold War turning point (9) |
| TIME | Gore says Bush is stuck in a cold-war ___ warp |
| BERLINBLOCKADE | A Cold War episode of 1948- 49 initiated by the Soviets occupying East Germany (6,8) |
| RUSSIA | Republican American is tip ping a cold-war rival (6) |
| ARMSRACE | Escalation of weaponry during a cold war: 2 wds. |
| WHILE | Film from 2015 starring Ben Stiller, ----- We're Young (5) |
