| UPRISING | Mirabeau finally forcing a revolt (8) |
| COLLIDER | Coal miner holds down accelerator, forcing a crash (8) |
| LOYALIST | Supporter of the sovereign during a revolt (8) |
| VOLTAIRE | One involved in a revolt reformed leading figure of the Enlightenment (8) |
| BOADICEA | Queen of the British Iceni tribe who led a revolt against Rome in AD60 (8) |
| GABRIELA | Filipino woman who led a revolt against Spanish officials in the Philippines during the 18th century |
| DIVERSIONARY | Several inspectors just started on a railway forcing a track change |
| CRASHINGBOHR | Forcing a physicist's car off the road? |
| MEASLIEST | Most miserable, forcing a set smile |
| VOTEOFNOCONFIDENCE | Way of forcing a government's resignation |
| ETONJACKET | Jack, forcing a teen to have posh top (4,6) |
| COMFORTING | Tom, forcing a showdown that's soothing? (10) |
| TURNING | Computer pioneer penning note forcing a change of direction |
| PENETRATING | Writer treating development by forcing a way in (11) |
| BEAUTY | Worth admiring in some of Mirabeau typography (6) |
| SPRAYER | An atomizer or equipment used for forcing a liquid into fine particles as paint, insecticide etc. |
| PLUNGER | One of those forcing a clear out from Persian Gulf dismissed? As if! (7) |
| PERU | A group of soldiers staged a revolt here, demanding Fujimori's resignation |
| ARABIA | A large peninsular region that was mainly under Ottoman control until a revolt, assisted by the British and French governments, during the First World War (6) |
| CADE | A species of juniper; or, the leader of a revolt whose rebellion was dramatised by Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part 2 (4) |
