| SIXACTS | Name given to the legislation introduced by the British government following the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 (3,4) |
| ELEVEN | Number killed in the Peterloo massacre |
| WROE | James ___, journalist who named the Peterloo Massacre; ower (anag.) |
| EARTHSHATTERING | Go to pieces in Government following heart problem - it's like being hit by as asteroid (5-10) |
| BILLOFRIGHTS | Scary legislation introduced by a leprechaun? |
| REDACT | Frame piece of legislation introduced by socialist (6) |
| IMPACT | Effect of legislation introduced by one politician |
| VICHY | Marshal Petain commanded France's ... Government following its occupation by Germany in 1940 |
| RINGL | Which former Ireland rugby international was recently appointed as a special envoy to the US for Northern Ireland by the British government? (8) |
| BLACKANDTANS | A specially recruited armed auxiliary police force sent to Ireland in 1921 by the British Government to combat Sinn Fein |
| ROYALMAIL | This company wholly owned by the British government is responsible for the collection and delivery o |
| PHILEASFOGG | Subject of an 1872 worldwide manhunt by the British government, sort of |
| HUNT | Henry ___, British politician nicknamed Orator imprisoned following the 1819 Peterloo Massacre (4) |
| GIRO | Unemployment cheque paid out by the British government |
| THERAJ | Name given to the British government in India before 1947 (3,3) |
| STONEHENGE | Sir Cecil Chubb donated this prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain to the British government in 19 |
| REALM | Defence of the ___ Act, law of 1914 granting the British Government authoritarian new powers (5) |
| TEA | Boston ___ Party, 1773 protest against the British government during the American Revolution (3) |
| NEWSTYLE | Solar dating system, introduced by the Pope in 1582, using the Gregorian rather than the Julian calendar |
| VICTORIACROSS | What was introduced by the monarch in 1856 to reward acts of valour in the Crimean War? (8,5) |
