| REDBRIGADE | One of a network of far-left guerrilla groups active in Italy in the 1970s and 80s (3,7) |
| CONTRABAND | Old Nicaraguan guerrilla group's smuggled goods |
| WAGNER | Russian paramilitary group active in Syria and Ukraine (6) |
| ETNA | It's active in Italy |
| FERAL | Wild time among leaders of far left (5) |
| TROT | Adherent of far left or moderate movement |
| RAILTRACK | British public transport group active from 1994 to 2002 |
| LOBBYIST | Pressure-group active member (8) |
| PAULMASSON | Pioneer of Californian wine, 1859-1940, whose label was promoted by Orson Welles and John Gielgud in the 1970s and 1980s (4,6) |
| ELEMENTARY | Simple lead, say, in front of a network (10) |
| STRADIVARI | Luthier and stringed instrument maker born in Italy in 1644 (10) |
| THEODORIC | ___ the Great, founder of the Ostrogoth kingdom in Italy in the fifth/sixth centuries AD (9) |
| PEEL | Founder of a network of "bobbies"; a baker's shovel; or, in printing, a pole used to hang up sheets to dry (4) |
| GULAG | Which penal system of the Soviet Union consisted of a network of labour camps? (5) |
| RETICELLA | Form of needlepoint lace produced in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries (9) |
| INTARSIA | A form of wood inlay work developed in Italy in the 15th century (8) |
| JAMESON | Journalist and broadcaster who edited the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Daily Star and News Of The World in the 1970s and '80s (5,7) |
| RONNIECORBETT | Comedian, originally part of a double act, who starred in the sitcoms Now Look Here in the 1970s and Sorry in the 1980s (6,7) |
| RALT | Successful racing car builder, initially in Australia in the 1950s and again in Britain in the 1970s and later (4) |
| TAROT | Pack of 78 playing cards with five suits, first used in Italy in the 15th Century (5) |
