| NATION | People united in hope helping to defend popular front, new adventure's beginning (7,6) |
| RAINBOW | People united in hope helping to defend popular front, new adventure's beginning (7,6) |
| EUPHORIA | United in hope, excited by revolutionary song giving joy (8) |
| TREASUREISLAND | Tale of Jim Hawkins' adventures beginning on the "Hispaniola" |
| FORUM | Gathering of people united in criminal history |
| AUGUSTA | Grand adventure beginning in America (7) |
| ORCHESTRATION | Men helping to defend box and scoring |
| MATTHEWBOURNE | Choreographer who founded the New Adventures theatre company (7,6) |
| LEAPINTHEDARK | Each beer chap had during escapade was a new adventure |
| WINNIETHEPOOH | Bear with one in hope for improvement (6,3,4) |
| AMERICANDREAM | A broken man cried over sheets, in hope of equal opportunity (8,5) |
| CHANCEONESARM | Have a go in hope |
| DUELLIST | He has a second helping to defend his honour (8) |
| PRUSSIA | Popular Front preceding the first Communist state in parts of Germany (7) |
| RAMP | One's inclined to strike with Popular Front (4) |
| TARNATION | Tin hat battered in conflict, people united, eh? (4,2,9) |
| WHATIN | Tin hat battered in conflict, people united, eh? (4,2,9) |
| PARTISAN | Trained worker in support of Popular Front fighter (8) |
| TRIBES | Tries to include, first, bright people united by descent and language (6) |
| LEILA | 60s militant member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, ... Khaled |
