| GENERALDEGAULLE | Leader of the French government in exile during World War II and later president of France (7,2,6) |
| CHARLESDEGAULLE | Leader of the Free French Forces during World War II, and later French Prime Minister (7,2,6) |
| BOTHA | PW _, Prime Minister and later President of South Africa during the late 1970s and 1980s (5) |
| DUG | Worked in the garden of the French Government (3) |
| ALGIERS | Headquarters of the Free French government in 1943 |
| FREYBERG | General who led the 2nd New Zealand Division during World War II and later became Governor-General (8) |
| KURTWALDHEIM | Which Austrian was Secretary-General of the United Nations, then later president of Austria? (4,8) |
| GHANA | Kwame Nkrumah was its first prime minister and, later, president (5) |
| OKINAWA | Japanese island placed under U.S. rule after World War II and returned to Japan in 1972 (7) |
| BECKET | Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered following conflict with Henry II and later canonised (6) |
| FREE | General de Gaulle became leader of the ... French Army in 1940, following the fall of his nation to the Germans |
| ACTOFSETTLEMENT | Piece of legislation from 1701 prompted by the failure of King William III, Queen Mary II and Queen Anne to produce any surviving children |
| HIROHITO | Emperor of Japan during World War 2 and until his death in 1989 (8) |
| VICHY | This town was the seat of the collaborationist French government during the Second World War (5) |
| DALAI | The former head of the Tibetan government in exile, who retired in March 2011 (5,4) |
| LAMA | The former head of the Tibetan government in exile, who retired in March 2011 (5,4) |
| DALAILAMA | The former head of the Tibetan government in exile, who retired in 2011 (5,4) |
| TROUSERS | In 2013, the French government overturned a 213-year-old ban on women in Paris wearing what? (8) |
| GOLDENAGEOFTV | Name applied to both a period following the Second World War and a period in the early twenty-first century |
| MEMPHIS | 1990 Michael Caton-Jones film set during the Second World War and starring Matthew Modine (7,5) |
