| AIRLIFT | The Berlin ___ , 1948-49, first crisis of the Cold War (7) |
| CARDIAC | Perhaps automatic help given over first sign of crisis of the heart (7) |
| SAG | Crisis of the middle ages? |
| CURTAIN | Boundary that separated Warsaw Pact countries from NATO countries until the end of the Cold War, the |
| GROMYKO | Andrei, Soviet foreign minister during much of the Cold War (7) |
| SCANDAL | Christine Keeler was the call-girl at the heart of Britain's political crisis of 1963, the so-called |
| EARMUFF | Used to keep out the sound of the cold (7) |
| CHAPPED | Sore and cracked as a result of the cold (7) |
| IRONCURTAIN | Physical and ideological barrier between the Soviet Bloc and Western Europe from the end of WWII until the 1991 end of the Cold War (4,7) |
| BELINDA | Johnny ___ 1948 film starring Oscar winner Jane Wyman who acted using sign language |
| HOLYLOCH | Site of a submarine base closed after the end of the Cold War (4,4) |
| NATO | Grp. that has added 12 members since the end of the Cold War |
| LEONID | ____ Brezhnev, Soviet leader at the height of the Cold War (6) |
| BERLINWALL | Iconic symbol of the Cold War, left in wine-bar, troubled heart of ally (6,4) |
| BERLINBLOCKADE | A Cold War episode of 1948- 49 initiated by the Soviets occupying East Germany (6,8) |
| BONN | Capital of the Cold War era's West Germany |
| FUSSY | Hard to please or offend one of the Cold War participants almost finishing with democracy (5) |
| CPOINTCHARLIE | Famous symbol of the Cold War |
| PEACEPRIZE | Nobel honour awarded to Canada's (future) Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson in 1957 "for his crucial contribution to the deployment of a United Nations Emergency Force in the wake of the Suez Crisis" o |
| SHORT | 2016 Oscar-winner about the financial crisis of 2007/8, The Big ___ |
