| IFSTONE | Journalist with a weekly newsletter from 1953 to 1971 |
| OPTEDIN | Consented to receive a weekly newsletter, for example |
| PARCEL | Friend admits last newsletter from church arrives via the post office (6) |
| CNN | TV channel with a weekly show called "The Music Room" |
| SETI | Inst. with a weekly 'Big Picture Science' radio program |
| EDAM | City with a weekly cheese market |
| MENSA | Club with a Weekly Brainwave news brief |
| PARSHA | Standard quiet associated with a weekly portion of the Torah (6) |
| TCM | Channel with a weekly "Noir Alley" film |
| APPIA | Lancia's small car rival to Fiat's 1100/1200 and Alfa Romeo's Giulietta, with over 98,000 built from 1953 to 1963 (5) |
| TOPPER | Comic published by D C Thomson from 1953 to 1990, when it merged with The Beezer |
| THEGOODOLDDAYS | TV entertainment programme from 1953 to 1983 that recreated a music hall venue (3,4,3,4) |
| GENEVA | The United Nations, with its headquarters in this Swiss city, is celebrating the centenary of the birth of Dag Hammarskjold, its Secretary-General from 1953 to his death in 1961 |
| EISENHOWER | US president from 1953 to 1961 |
| CAPITOL | On which record label did Frank Sinatra record from 1953 to 1962? (7) |
| KATOWICE | City of Upper Silesia, known from 1953 to 1956 as Stalinogrod (8) |
| TITO | Who was President of Yugoslavia from 1953 to 1980? (4) |
| NEAVE | Airey --, 1916-79, MP from 1953 to 1979 (5) |
| USIA | U.S. public relations org. from 1953 to 1999 |
| HAMMARSKJOLD | Dag --, Swedish Secretary-General of the UN from 1953 to 1961 (12) |