| 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) |
| 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) |
| HAMMARSKJOLD | Dag --, Swedish Secretary-General of the UN from 1953 to 1961 (12) |
| CLARENCE | ____ House, residence in London of the Queen Mother from 1953 to 2002 (8) |
| MAMIE | _ Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961 (5) |
| IKE | Nickname of the US president from 1953 to 1961 |
| NIKITA | Leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, _ Khruschev (6) |
| ROMPERROOM | Children's show from 1953 to 1994 |
| CHEMNITZ | City in Saxony, Germany, known from 1953 to 1990 as Karl-Marx-Stadt |
| BROZ | Josip ___ Tito, Yugoslavian president from 1953 to 1980 |
