| KHMERROUGE | The Kampuchean Communist party, which seized power in the Cambodian Civil War in 1975 (5,5) |
| KHMER | ___ Rouge, the Kampuchean communist party, which seized power in the Cambodian Civil War in 1975 (5) |
| ROUGE | The Cambodian communist party which seized power in 1975 (5,5) |
| NOTTINGHAM | City on the River Trent that was the scene of the outbreak of the English Civil War in 1642 |
| PRESSGANGS | Units which seized merchant sailors and forced them to serve in the navy (5,5) |
| SHESTHEONE | Song by World Party which became a hit for Robbie Williams in 1999 (4,3,3) |
| UGANDA | African country in which General Idi Amin seized power in a military coup in 1971 (6) |
| BOLSHEVIK | Member of the radical faction of the Russian socialist party which became the Communist Party in 1918 (9) |
| BARCELONA | Picasso's Spanish city which fell to the Nationalist forces in the Civil War in January 1939 |
| JUNTA | For example, the military one that seized power in Argentina in 1976 (5) |
| NASEBY | Northamptonshire village that was the site of a major Parliamentarian victory in the Civil War in 1645 (6) |
| BIAFRA | Region of Nigeria which declared independence in 1967, causing a civil war in which two million civilians died (6) |
| ERSHAD | Hussain Mohammed, Bangladeshi soldier who seized power in a coup in 1982 (6) |
| CONSTANTINE | King of Greece who went into exile when the army seized power in 1967 (11) |
| KINK | It's a pain in the neck Kampuchean leader used to print letters in paper (4) |
| COLOMBIA | 2016 winner Juan Manuel Santos won the Peace Prize for his efforts in ending the civil war in this country |
| CHEASIM | President of the Cambodian People's Party from 1991 to 2015 (4,3) |
| BULLRUN | First Battle of ?, first major engagement of the American Civil War, in July 1861 (4,3) |
| RUBICON | River crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC, precipitating civil war in Rome |
| NANSEN | ____ passports were first issued to refugees from the Russian civil war, in 1922 |
