| GUERNICA | Picasso artwork inspired by a Spanish Civil War airstrike |
| ALCAZAR | Scene of a Spanish Civil War siege (7) |
| XIMENES | Noted crossword setter whose pseudonym was inspired by a Spanish grand inquisitor (7) |
| AFRAID | Regretfully admitting leader of British airstrike is missing |
| BELL | For Whom the ___ Tolls novel by Ernest Hemingway about a volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during Spanish Civil War |
| GUARNICA | Town bombed during the Spanish Civil War, subject of a famous painting by Picasso (8) |
| BLOODTRANSFUSION | Did You Know? Canadian physician Dr. Norman Bethune (b.1890 - d.1939) organized a mobile ___ ___ service for the wounded when he was a volunteer during the Spanish Civil War |
| LORCA | Spanish poet and dramatist killed by General Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War (5) |
| FEDERICOGARCIALORCA | Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director killed by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War |
| FORWHOMTHEBELLTOLLS | Ernest Hemingway's 1940 novel about Robert Jordan, a volunteer attached to a guerrilla unit during the Spanish Civil War (3,4,3,4,5) |
| FIFTHCOLUMN | Organised group of enemy sympathisers within a population; originally, Franco supporters in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War (5,6) |
| AZANA | Manuel ___, President of Spain succeeded by Francisco Franco at the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-9) (5) |
| THIRTIES | Spanish Civil War period, with "the" |
| THEBELL | Hemingway novel set during the Spanish civil war (3,4,3,4,5) |
| TOLLS | Hemingway novel set during the Spanish civil war (3,4,3,4,5) |
| FORWHOM | Hemingway novel set during the Spanish civil war (3,4,3,4,5) |
| HOMAGE | ______ to Catalonia: George Orwell's book about the Spanish Civil War (6) |
| FRANCISCOFRANCO | Dictator following the Spanish Civil War |
| FALANGISTS | Supporters of Franco in the Spanish Civil War (10) |
| GENERALFRANCO | Military leader who came to power during the Spanish Civil War (7,6) |