| ROBESPIERRE | Maximilien - - -, influential figure of the French Revolution, executed in 1794 (11) |
| DANTON | Lawyer who was a leading figure in the French Revolution, executed without trial in 1794 (6) |
| VANGOGH | Vincent ___ Dutch painter of The Starry Night who was also one of the influential figures of Western Art: 2 wds. |
| REIGN | ... of Terror, period of the French Revolution when supreme power was in the hands of the Committee of Public Safety and the Jacobins (5) |
| DIDEROT | Encyclopedist and leading figure of the French Enlightenment |
| TERROR | The Reign of ___, a period of violence occurring after the onset of the French Revolution (6) |
| STORMING | - of the Bastille; an event that marked the beginning of the French Revolution (8) |
| BASTILLE | Prison in Paris stormed in the opening days of the French Revolution (8) |
| NELSON | Horatio, British naval hero who lost sight in his right eye during the siege of Calvi in Corsica in 1794 (6) |
| LIVRE | A former French unit of money of account, discontinued in 1794 (5) |
| FRANCOISEHARDY | "Tous les Garcons et les Filles" singer who was a major figure of the French ye-ye scene |
| BIGCHEESE | Influential figure in the dairy business! (3,6) |
| DUKEELLINGTON | American composer and pianist; an influential figure in jazz from the 1920s (4,9) |
| RASPUTIN | Influential figure in court of Tsar Nicholas II (8) |
| OKEEFE | Name one of the most influential figures in Australian pop music, Johnnie ... (6) |
| ATALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, ... Two Citie |
| TALEOF | Dickens' book of the French Revolution, filmed in 1935 with Ronald Colman in the lead, A ... Two Cit |
| NORMAN | US soprano who sang the Marseillaise in Paris for the bicentennial of the French Revolution, Jessye |
| TERREUR | La ..., a period of the French Revolution following the creation of the First Republic when massacres and executions took place (7) |
| EGALITE | Middle word in the motto of the French Revolution |
