| ROBERTSON | Leader of the US Christian Coalition which has become increasingly influential in the politics of th |
| ELIOTNESS | Leader of the US federal law agents in the television series and film The Untouchables (5,4) |
| MAPPING | Setting for engines that has become increasingly more digital over the years. (7) |
| KING | ___ Jr, US Christian minister and civil rights leader assassinated in Memphis in 1968 (6,6,4) |
| MARTINLUTHER | ___ Jr, US Christian minister and civil rights leader assassinated in Memphis in 1968 (6,6,4) |
| BLOC | Christian Coalition, e.g. |
| GINSBERG | Which beat generation poet (Allen ___) was later influential in the hippy movement of the 1960s? (8) |
| SPHERES | Ancient idea that saw the movement of the planets in the heavens as a kind of dance, the music of th |
| SOLOMON | Some of the most savage fighting in the Pacific in WWII occurred over the British protectorate of th |
| LAMB | English essayist (1775-1834) influential in the revival of interest in Elizabethan drama |
| RASPUTIN | Which notorious monk was influential in the Russian court of Nicholas and Alexandra? (8) |
| BLAIRITE | Epithet for those who regard the politics of 1997-2007 as a success (8) |
| RIDGE | The Blue ___ Mountains Of Virginia, location sung about in the Laurel and Hardy song The Trail Of Th |
| SWORDIN | Merlin the magician features in the Disney animation of TH White's story, The ... The Stone (5,2) |
| STROGANOV | Family which was influential in Russia from the time of Ivan Terrible until the Russian revolution in 1917 (9) |
| LEARY | The Politics of Ecstasy author |
| THATCHERITE | Concerning the politics of Britain's first woman PM (11) |
| STAGPARTY | Rutting ceremony? Or the politics of stock dealing? (4,5) |
| BOWNN | Novelist and short story writer born in Dublin in 1899 who wrote The Last September, The Death of th |
| BRIGHT | Song which has become one of the most popular funeral songs (6,4,2,3,6,4,2,4) |