| ROSAPARKS | In 1955, which civil rights activist famously refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger? (4,5) |
| RCA | In 1955, which record company bought out Elvis Presley's Sun record contract? (1,1,1) |
| UNDERSECRETARY | Which civil servant ranks just below one in charge of a government department? (14) |
| JOSEPHINITE | Who was famously refused gets it in? It's occasionally unearthed |
| TEA | Drink famously refused at a Boston "party" |
| NOELCOUNIHAN | Noted as a newspaper caricaturist, which artist and member of the Communist Party painted On Parliament Steps (1955), which won the George Crouch Memorial Prize? (4,8) |
| SIND | Province of southeastern Pakistan under British rule, 1936-1955, which included Karachi (4) |
| ROSA | ___ Parks, African American civil rights activist who refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger in December 1955 (4) |
| PARKS | Rosa, U.S. civil rights activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat in 1955 helped to inspire desegregation (5) |
| CLAUDETTE | ___ Colvin, civil rights pioneer who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus nine months before Rosa Parks |
| SEAT | While riding a bus in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested because she wouldn't give hers up to a white man |
| BUSBOYCOTT | This was started in Montgomery when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat: 2 wds. |
| SUBROSA | First woman to refuse to give up her seat on the Nautilus? |
| THELOVERS | 1970s sitcom in which Beryl refused to give in to Geoffrey's desire for "Percy Filth" |
| ELECT | Give a seat to a clean sitter getting rid of a strain (5) |
| CANNELLONI | From "pipe, reed, stem" and with a similar name to a white haricot bean, a variety of tubular pasta; or, a dish of said rolls stuffed with minced beef and cheese or ricotta and spinach (10) |
| BLACKBELT | An expert in judo would attain this level (and then work her way on to a white one again) |
| SLAP | Sidney Poitier would do it to a white man in, In The Heat of the Night. |
| STICKER | He refused to give up an adhesive label (7) |
| NICOLE | Casualty medic who refused to give a home to teenager Cassie after their foster mother died (6,5) |
