| TALKINGBOOK | Recording item launched in 1945 |
| ELLE | Lifestyle magazine founded in Paris in 1945, and launched in Britain and the US in 1985 |
| CASERTA | German surrender site in Italy in 1945 |
| PYLE | Pulitzer journalist killed in combat in 1945 |
| ATOMICAGE | Trinity announced its arrival in 1945 needing a cat I fence in (6,3) |
| SYLVESTER | "Thufferin' Thuccotash!" lisps this cat in his first animation appearance in 1945 (his famous partne |
| ANNEFRANK | This German-Jewish teenager died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945; the diar |
| FLOREY | Australian who shared a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945 for his work in developing penicillin, Howa |
| WEBERN | Anton von ..., composer shot dead in 1945 in the Allied occupation of Austria (6) |
| ABOMB | Retraction of press breaking Alberta news item in 1945 (1-4) |
| NAGASAKI | Port in Japan almost completely destroyed in 1945 by a nuclear bomb (8) |
| YALTA | In which Crimean city did Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt meet in 1945? (5) |
| DRESDEN | Industrial city in SE Germany almost destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945 (7) |
| JODRELLBANK | ? Observatory, University of Manchester site in Cheshire established in 1945 by Dr Bernard Lovell (7,4) |
| ROBBINS | The world's largest chain of ice cream stores, founded in Glendale, California in 1945 (6-7) |
| BASKIN | The world's largest chain of ice cream stores, founded in Glendale, California in 1945 (6-7) |
| RENAULT | Old-established French motor company, founded in 1899 and nationalized in 1945 but still going strong (7) |
| GRIMES | Peter _, opera by Benjamin Britten first performed in London in 1945 (6) |
| ALLARD | Short-lived motor company founded in Clapham, London, in 1945 (6) |
| NUREMBERG | ___ trials, series of hearings in 1945-46 in which leading Nazi war criminals were tried (9) |
