| ORNE | One of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution (4) |
| DEFENSE | Department created during the Truman administration |
| KNOT | Type of herbal garden design, set in a square frame, first created during the reign of Elizabeth I (4) |
| PITT | William ___ , The Younger, British Prime Minister during the French Revolution (4) |
| NANTES | French port at the head of the Loire estuary that was the scene of the Noyades during the French Revolution |
| CHRONICLE | The Anglo-Saxon - - -, manuscript created during the reign of Alfred the Great (9) |
| ANGLO | _ -Saxon Chronicle, historical manuscript originally created during the reign of Alfred the Great (5) |
| ROBESPIERRE | The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution effectively ended with the execution of this prominent leader (11) |
| REIGNOFTERROR | A period of violence during the French Revolution incited by conflict between the Girondins and the |
| GIRONDIST | Member of the moderate republican party suppressed by the Jacobins during the French Revolution (9) |
| HEBERT | Jacques, 18c French revolutionary and leader of the sans-culottes during the French Revolution (6) |
| LOUIS | Name of the French king executed in 1792 during the French revolution (5) |
| REIGN | - of Terror; period of state terrorism during the French Revolution led by Maximilien Robespierre (5) |
| JACOBIN | A member of the most radical club founded during the French Revolution, led by Robespierre (7) |
| TUMBREL | Name the cart used for carrying condemned persons to the guillotine during the French Revolution (7) |
| MARIE | The wife of Louis XVI, executed during the French Revolution (5,10) |
| ANTOINETTE | The wife of Louis XVI, executed during the French Revolution (5,10) |
| LOUVERTURE | Toussaint, leader of the Haitian independence movement during the French Revolution (10) |
| SANSCULOTTES | Term loosely applied to the lower classes during the French Revolution (4-8) |
| TVA | Dam-building agcy. created during the Great Depression |
