| LONGMARCH | Military retreat of around 6,000 miles undertaken by around 100,000 Chinese Communists between 1934- |
| BLOOD | Oxygenating fluid described by William Harvey in De Motu Cordis; around 6,000 donations are needed d |
| CHIANG | In 1934 around 100,000 Chinese communists under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung retreated 10,000 km from the Nationalist Army of ... Kai-Shek in what was to become known as the Long March |
| PANZER | Name of tanks produced by Germany between 1934 and 1945, from the Mk I to Mk VI (6) |
| MARYPOPPINS | Protagonist of eight children's novels written by Australian- English author P. L. Travers between 1934 and 1988 (4,7) |
| SHIA | Branch of Islam followed by around 10 per cent of Muslims (4) |
| LESLIEHOREBELISHA | British minister of transport between 1934 and 1937 (6,4-7) |
| REEFS | Coral -; known as "rainforests of the sea", ecosystems inhabited by around 25 per cent of all known marine species (5) |
| ISLE | Fair-; three miles long and inhabited by around 60 people, a land between Orkney and Shetland noted for traditional knitwear (4) |
| ASIA | Continent inhabited by around 60 per cent of Earth's population (4) |
| OUNCE | Little weight in days gone by around middle of tum! |
| HANDSIGNALS | Those described by around a third of the original Highway Code in 1931 |
| CHATTED | Talked of that eccentric captured by around December (7) |
| GERARD | Elizabethan botanist whose book Herball details some 1,000 plant species illustrated by around 2,500 woodcuts, including the first description in English of a potato (6) |
| LOURDES | Pilgrimage site in France visited by around six million visitors every year (7) |
| AFRIKAANS | Youngest official national language in the world, spoken by around 7 million people in South Africa (9) |
| POPLIN | Drop by around lunchtime at the earliest for material (6) |
| ENLAI | Zhou ___, Chinese communist statesman; first premier of the People's Republic of China (1949-76) (2,3) |
| SWALLOWS | Flying some 200 miles per day during their 6,000-mile migration, house martin-like birds considered heralds of spring and represented in heraldry as martlets (8) |
| KIA | Telluride maker (that's 6,000+ miles away from Telluride) |
