| DIMES | March of |
| SMYTH | Composer of The March of the Women suffrage anthem jailed for throwing a rock through a window of the Houses of Parliament (5) |
| BOYCE | Composer of the music to Heart of Oak, the official march of the Royal Navy (5) |
| EMPEROR | This star of the National Geographic film, March Of The Penguins, is the largest of the species |
| MENOFHARLECH | March of Helen? Wrong - of Welshmen |
| BRUSSELS | European site of a "World March of Women" |
| ADELIELAND | Region of Antarctica where Luc Jacquet filmed March of the Penguins (6,4) |
| PENGUINS | Best documentary winner for 2006, the French vision of Antarctic dwellers The March Of The ... |
| SCIPIO | Slow march of the Grenadier Guards, taken from a Handel opera about a Roman general of the same name, who defeated Hannibal |
| MORGANFREEMAN | Unforgiven actor who narrated the scientific documentaries March of the Penguins and Island of Lemurs: Madagascar: 2 wds. |
| MIDGES | Flies, for the March of dimes, the head of Germany in (6) |
| GOUNOD | French composer of the 1872 piano piece Funeral March of a Marionette (6) |
| LUC | ___ Jacquet, director of "March of the Penguins" |
| ETHELSMYTH | English composer who composed The March Of The Women, anthem of the women's suffrage movement (5,5) |
| ALLISION | This word, meaning "the act or an instance of a ship striking a stationary object," spiked after the collapse in March of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge |
| OAK | Heart of ___, official march of the Royal Navy (3) |
| ARNE | "March of the British Grenadiers" composer |
| FREEMAN | "March of the Penguins" narrator |
| FDR | March of Dimes establisher |
| FREDRIC | March of "Inherit the Wind" |