| OGPU | Organisation also called the Joint State Political Directorate that formed the Soviet secret police |
| GULAG | Division of the Soviet secret police created under Stalin in the 19305 to administer prisons and forced labour camps (5) |
| ROLLO | Viking leader who received from Charles III of France the district that formed the basis of the duch |
| DEEPSOUTH | Part of the United States comprising states that formed the Confederacy in the Civil War (4,5) |
| CHEKA | Soviet secret police organisation set up in 1917, a forerunner of the KGB (5) |
| KGB | What were the initials of the old Soviet Secret Police? (inits)(1,1,1) |
| MARYLAND | One of the original 13 colonies that formed the United States (8) |
| EBRO | Spanish river that formed the dividing line between the Roman and Carthaginian occupations in third century BC (4) |
| HORNETS | Rochdale ....... , one of the original 22 rugby clubs that formed the Northern Rugby Football Union in 1895 (7) |
| LAURASIA | Ancient landmass that formed the northerly half of the supercontinent Pangaea (8) |
| SAVOY | Noble family that formed the royal house of Italy from 18611946 (5) |
| MAGNACARTA | Document, signed by King John on Runnymede green, that formed the basis of British constitutional la |
| TWRCH | River that formed the ancient boundary between Brecknockshire and Carmarthenshire |
| TEES | River of NE England that formed the historic boundary between County Durham and Yorkshire (4) |
| BERIA | Lavrenti, Soviet secret police chief who attempted to seize power after Stalin's death (5) |
| UKRAINE | One of the four original republics that formed the USSR in 1922 |
| SEEDS | Embryonic plants such as those used in Gregor Mendel's experiments that formed the basis of modern genetics or those preserved at Wakehurst Place (5) |
| NKGB | 1940s Soviet secret police org. |
| COMINTERN | Communist organisation also known as the Third International formed in 1919 (9) |
| RUBICON | Stream that formed the ancient boundary between Italy and Cisalpine Gaul (7) |
