| KHMERROUGE | The Cambodian communist party which seized power in a civil war in 1975 |
| ROUGE | The Cambodian communist party which seized power in 1975 (5,5) |
| KHMER | The Cambodian communist party which seized power in 1975 (5,5) |
| BIAFRA | Region of Nigeria which declared independence in 1967, causing a civil war in which two million civilians died (6) |
| UGANDA | African country in which General Idi Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971 (6) |
| ERSHAD | Hussain Mohammed, Bangladeshi soldier who seized power in a coup in 1982 (6) |
| JUNTA | For example, the military one that seized power in Argentina in 1976 (5) |
| BOLSHEVIK | Member of the majority faction who seized power in Russia in 1917 (9) |
| NASEBY | Village in Northamptonshire, site of a Parliamentarian victory in the English Civil War in 1645 (6) |
| BARCELONA | Picasso's Spanish city which fell to the Nationalist forces in the Civil War in January 1939 |
| CONSTANTINE | King of Greece who went into exile when the army seized power in 1967 (11) |
| REENACT | Perform in a Civil War show, perhaps |
| RHETT | Butler in a Civil War flick |
| MUSKET | Prop in a Civil War reenactment |
| NOTTINGHAM | City on the River Trent that was the scene of the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 (10) |
| AWARD | A grant made by a court of law, especially of damages in a civil action (5) |
| PRESSGANGS | Units which seized merchant sailors and forced them to serve in the navy (5,5) |
| COLOMBIA | 2016 winner Juan Manuel Santos won the Peace Prize for his efforts in ending the civil war in this country |
| DISBURSEMENT | The fee paid by a solicitor to a third party which is then claimed back from the client |
| POL | Cambodian communist leader born in Prek Sbauv, near Kompong Thom, in 1925 (3,3) |
