| PERESTROIKA | Mikhail Gorbachev's program of Russian economic and political reforms in the 1980s |
| PRAGUE | Capital that had spring fever after first signs of political reforms (6) |
| RADICAL | I'd see Clara as being into social and political reform (7) |
| CHARTISM | Late 1830s British working-class movement for male suffrage and political reform (8) |
| LANFRANC | Archbishop of Canterbury, 1070-89, who instituted many reforms in the English church (8) |
| REGION | Ignore reforms in the district |
| MARXISM | Name given to the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (7) |
| BLACKPOWER | US social, economic, and political movement of black people, 1960s and 1970s (5,5) |
| SOCIALDARWINIST | Adherent of natural selection within economic and political settings (6,9) |
| NEWDEAL | Domestic programme of economic and social reform implemented by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to combat the effects of the Great Depression (3,4) |
| FARE | Economic and political problem |
| ACCESSION | Scion aces reform in the act of taking the throne (9) |
| GLASNOST | Mikhail Gorbachev's 1990s policy of loosening government control in the Soviet Union |
| CHAPTERONE | When the follow got Rene to reform, in the book (7,3) |
| CHERNENKO | Konstantin, Mikhail Gorbachev's predecessor as leader of the Soviet Union (9) |
| CHARTISTS | Members of 19th century organisation seeking political reform, who used the new railways to travel and drum up support (9) |
| TURKS | Young _, early 20th-century political reform movement in the Ottoman Empire (5) |
| PETERLOO | The ____ massacre took place at an 1819 rally in Manchester supporting political reform |
| GRACCHI | The -; brothers Tiberius and Gaius, tribunes of the plebs who attempted to pass land reforms in ancient Rome (7) |
| SOLON | Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and elegiac poet, c. 638 BC-558 BC, who sought to legislate against political, economic and moral decline in Athens |