| STEINER | Rudolf ---, Austrian education reformer and philosopher |
| HORACEMANN | 19th-century education reformer |
| MANN | American education reformer |
| DOROTHYDAY | American journalist and Roman Catholic reformer and activist |
| RIIS | Social reformer and writer |
| MALTHUS | Pure Scotch religious reformer and demographer (7) |
| CATT | Carrie --, 1859-1947, US reformer and pacifist (4) |
| UTHERPENDRAGON | Losing capital, reformer and writer never seem to stop king ... |
| KNOX | Religious reformer and founder of the Church of Scotland, John ... |
| ELIZABETHFRY | Victorian prison reformer and philanthropist |
| ANNIEBESANT | Social reformer and supporter of Indian independence born in 1847 |
| HUSSAR | Religious reformer and rising painter, one often up on a charge |
| ADDAMS | Jane ___, US social reformer and pacifist awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 (6) |
| BESANT | Annie, 19th/20th-century British social reformer and prominent supporter of Indian independence (6) |
| OCTAVIA | --- Hill, English social reformer and one of the three founders of the UK's National Trust (7) |
| SUSANBANTHONY | American social reformer and suffragist who worked closely with Elizabeth Stanton |
| FRY | Elizabeth, Victorian prison reformer and Quaker, depicted on former banknotes (3) |
| HILL | Social reformer and National Trust co-founder whose forename suggests an ancient Roman eight (4) |
| MARGOT | Famous ballet duo, Rudolf Nureyev and ___ Fonteyn (6) |
| CHESS | The game of Charlie and Rudolf (5) |