| BERIA | Lavrenti, Soviet chief of secret police who died in 1953 (5) |
| STASI | Secret police who fell with the Berlin Wall |
| BERNA | Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin (5) |
| STING | Singer of the rock band Police who was born Gordon Sumner in 1951 (5) |
| IBERIA | One chief of secret police in Spain and Portugal (6) |
| STALINISM | Ideology and policies of Soviet leader who died in 1953 (9) |
| STALIN | Joseph ___, Soviet leader who died in 1953 (6) |
| DYLANTHOMAS | Famous English poet who died in 1953? (5,6) |
| JOAD | C.E.M.___, a British philosopher who died in 1953 (4) |
| HANK | Mr. Williams, country singer/songwriter who died in 1953 (4) |
| REINHARDT | Django, Belgian jazz guitarist who died in 1953 (9) |
| DUFY | Raoul, French painter who died in 1953 (4) |
| NUVOLARI | Tazio ?, motorcycle and motor racing car driver nicknamed The Flying Mantuan who died in 1953 (8) |
| SIBERIA | Place of exile, yes, for a Soviet head of secret police (7) |
| TRENCHARD | Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police who founded the police college at Hendon (9) |
| SPENTFORCE | Laid out money on police who were no longer powerful (5,5) |
| SPRANG | Jumped leaders of secret police called (6) |
| AA | Police who investigate police (abbr.) |
| SNATCH | ____ squad, a group of police who enter e.g. a riot to make an arrest (6) |
| RIOTSQUAD | Police who may use shields and water cannons |
