| MARSHAPJOHNSON | Key figure in the Stonewall uprising, whose middle initial stood for "Pay it no mind" |
| PRIDEMONTH | June celebration honoring the Stonewall uprising |
| TNS | Welsh football team that changed what its initials stood for in 2006 (3) |
| OWEN | Comparative anatomist and palaeontologist who coined the word Dinosauria and was a key figure in the establishment of the Natural History Museum in London (4) |
| WATTEAU | A key figure in the Rococo art movement whose style of painting was categorised by the French Academy in 1717 as "fete galante" (7) |
| TROTSKY | Key figure in the 1917 Russian revolution, murdered in Mexico City in 1940 (7) |
| JOHNFKENNEDY | 35th US president whose middle initial stands for Fitzgerald: 3 wds. |
| HARRYSTRUMAN | 33rd US president whose middle initial doesn't stand for a particular name: 3 wds. |
| MONCK | Originally Cromwell's commander-in-chief in Scotland, the Devon-born soldier who later became a key figure in negotiating the restoration of the monarchy to Charles II in 1660 (5) |
| PIANOMANCRAMER | ___ (who was a "key" figure in the Nashville Sound of the 1950s) |
| LANGTON | Archbishop of Canterbury and key figure in the negotiations leading to the signing of Magna Carta (7 |
| CREED | Frederick George ____ was a key figure in the development of the teleprinter |
| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien ___, a key figure in the French Revolution until his overthrow and execution in 1794 (11) |
| GINSBERG | Allen, U.S. poet born in 1926 who was a key figure in the Beat Generation (8) |
| LEON | _ Trotsky, key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution in October 1917 (4) |
| JOHNCALVIN | French theologian. pastor and reformer in Geneva who was a key figure in the Protestant Reformation (46) |
| CHUCKECHEESE | Rodent mascot whose middle initial stands for "Entertainment" |
| BEAUFORT | Lady Margaret -; Henry VII's mother and key figure in the Wars of the Roses who helped establish two prominent Cambridge colleges (8) |
| HILL | Social reformer who co-founded the National Trust and was a key figure in the formation of Army Cadets (4) |
| APARTHEID | Nelson Mandela was a key figure in the struggle against this South African regime of racial segregat |
